Artist: Wedgwood, Josiah, factory - English potter 1730-1795; Date(s): circa 1760 - 1765; Classification(s): lead-glazed earthenware, teapot, stamping (forming), Buff earthenware with applied stamped sprigs covered with translucent green glaze bearing remnants of oil gilding over the sprigs; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928, Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest [C.665 & A-1928]
Description: Buff earthenware with applied stamped sprigs covered with translucent green glaze bearing remnants of oil gilding over the sprigs. Globular with leaf-wrapped spout, ear-shaped handle made up of three leaves with a vertical rib and a kick up at their lower ends, more pronounced on the lowest, and circular slightly domed cover with a pierced knob. The sides are decorated with rosettes, prunus blossom and stylized foliage arranged roughly to form a festoon flanked by interlace motifs; on the cover there are two rosettes and two leaves.
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