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Description: | Unglazed buff stoneware hollow block for baluster-shaped teapot of octagonal section, with eight vertical relief panels of fantastical creatures and naked figures. Panels comprise from left to right; coat of arms bearing three quatrefoils, surmounting stag and bird; reclining naked figure, surmounting unicorn; scene from Aesop's Fables illustrating fox and stork, surmounting figure astride a lion, above a swan; bearded head in profile, surmounting gryphon with dead bird in its mouth, above two seated figures flanking large heart; four panels repeated in same order. Eight small horizontal plain panels around narrow foot. Accompanying five-part plaster mould taken from block, comprising four walls, each of two panels, and circular base. Each section of mould designed with different pattern of circular bosses and depressions to give correct fit with other sections.
Material: ceramics
Material: stoneware
mould & block made in Staffordshire, England, Britain, Europe, 1740-1760, (1923.534/6). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2768 | Go to resource |
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