Teapot
date: label: Date
content: 1765–1770
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory, German, established by 1753
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Globular body with double C-scroll handle and curving animal-headed spout. Round lid with bud-form knob. Gilt enrichments. Painted floral elements. In open gilt frame is painted Mercury appearing to a female figure.
label: Description
content: Impressed marks: diagonal lozenges on a shield (the Bavarian “Rautenschild”) and III in a circle
place: label: manufactured in
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1949-8-1-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: teapot
label: Type
content: teapot
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a,b: overall): 12 × 19 × 12 cm (4 3/4 × 7 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a: pot): 10.5 × 19 × 12 cm (4 1/8 × 7 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam. (b: lid): 2 × 6.5 cm (13/16 × 2 9/16 in.)