Teapot and lid
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
name: label: Manufacturer
content: John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, England, 1759 - 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Flattened spherical shape with wide, looped handle and conical spout. The high domed cover had knob composed of a draped female figure. Lower portion of pot is decorated with rays in low relief, sides with high relief groups of Bacchanalian putti and handle with leaf ornament. Thin shaped collar about mouth. Leaf and chevron reliefs on cover. Inside glazed.
place: label: made in
content: Staffordshire, England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-57-302-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Teapot and lid
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Unglazed stoneware ("black basalt")
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 15.5 × 23 × 13 cm (6 1/8 × 9 1/16 × 5 1/8 in.)