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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Teapot and Cover
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Teapot and Cover

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1770-80
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions6 in. (15.2 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.84
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a 'Fruit Sprigs' Pattern Spherical Teapot (A) and Cover (B). Transfer-printed on one side with a lobed fruit and on the reverse with a cut apple, both amidst flowers and leaves and surrounded by a gooseberry sprig, a foliate sprig and two floral sprigs beneath a cell diaper border around the shoulder repeated on the cover rim below three floral sprigs surrounding the floral sprig knop. Hatched crescent mark in underglaze-blue.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II