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Globular teapot with crabstock spout and handle, white salt-glazed stoneware, painted in overglaze enamels with portrait of Queen Charlotte and figure of Fame blowing a trumpet.
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Globular teapot on flared circular footring, with crabstock handle and spout and slight collar to neck. Body painted in turquoise-blue, green, pink, yellow, red and black overglaze enamels with circular medallion to left of handle, containing half-length left side profile portrait of Queen Charlotte, dressed in pink against a blue ground. Diamond diaper border in black and green, with inscription 'Charlotta Regina' across the top in black against pink. Painted floral sprays to left and right, including pink rose. Opposite side painted with shaped cartouche with yellow border, containing full length figure of Fame dressed in pink, sitting on billowing pink and blue clouds against blue sky, blowing a trumpet. Floral sprays to left and right. Handle and spout touched with daubs of green enamel. Flattened circular cover with integral concave button finial pierced through centre. Painted with scattered floral sprays in red, blue, yellow and green enamels. Considered by Jonathan Horne - Sampson & Horne Antiques to be very rare, it does however have the wrong lid.
Technique: thrown
Technique: relief-moulding
Technique: salt-glazed
Technique: enamelling overglaze
Material: ceramics
Material: stoneware
teapot made in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe, c.1761, (1923.555). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2789 | Go to resource |
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