New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Teapot and Cover

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1770-72

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)

Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II

Object numberL2005.10.102

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 2

DescriptionThis is a 'The Milkmaids' Pattern Spherical Teapot (A) and Cover (B). Printed in black on one side with a scene by Robert Hancock after an engraving by James Ross or Robert Sayer depicting a milkmaid bearing a pail on her head while a man helps another maid with her pail amidst cows and a dog, and on the reverse with a 'Farmyard Scene' of a farmer carrying a bundle of hay toward cows in a barnyard, the cover with a shepherd and shepherdess seated amidst their flock below the floral sprig knop, and each piece with a black enamel line around the shoulder or rim edge.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II