Teapot
Category
Ceramics
Date
1790 - 1810
Materials
Hard paste porcelain
Place of origin
Ansbach
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 870855.1
Summary
Teapot from a part cabaret tea service, hard paste porcelain, cylindrical body with distinct shoulder, short upright neck with recess for cover, ear shaped handle, long S-shaped spout from lower body, Ansbach, Germany, ca 1790-1810; pink ground with large oval roundel in reserve at centre of body painted in polychrome enamel with a bird on a branch, bands of gilt stars above and below a wavy line to the foot, shoulder and rim, gilt foliate design to shoulder and neck, the handle and spout also in gilt.
Provenance
Accepted by H.M.Treasury in part payment of death duty from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951) 4th Earl of Morley and transferred to NT in 1957.