Teapot and cover
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Semi ovoid, with simple molded foot, cavetto shoulder. Outward curving spout and two pierced tables for handle; flat domed cover with “window” knob. Low relief decoration of vertical chevron bands and horizontal ribbing; leaf ornament on spout and on handle attachments; beading on collar about mouth. Simple radiating chevron on cover. Flat brass handle soldered with hooks.
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: 1938-57-305-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Teapot and cover
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Unglazed stoneware ("black basalt")
label: Dimensions
content: 15.5 x 22 cm (6 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: with handle down: 15.5 x 17.5 cm (6 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.)