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Teapot

c. 1820
19th Century
5 3/4 in. x 5 3/4 in. x 5 3/4 in.

Artist/Maker Unknown,

Object Type: Decorative Art
Medium and Support: earthenware
Credit Line: Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number: 1959.80 a&b
A copper lusterware teapot (a) and lid (b). It has a ribbed body and oblong shape. Lusterware is made by coating earthenware with a thin covering of copper oxide. Firing reduces the oxide leaving a thin layer of copper over the earthenware.


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