New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Teapot and Cover

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

Dateca. 1765

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)

ClassificationsDecorative arts

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

Object numberL2005.10.117

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DescriptionThis is a Chinoiserie Teapot (A) and Cover (B). The spherical body printed in black and enameled in shades of iron-red, green, blue, rose, yellow, white and grisaille and heightened in gilding with the same figures as L2005.10.116: the lady with the fan standing near the lady and small boy looking toward the third lady standing behind the man seated at a marbleized table beneath an iron-red scallop-and-dot border around the shoulder repeated on the cover rim beneath the lady and boy and the seated man flanking the yellow-centered iron-red and green floral sprig knop.