Teapot
c. 1890
19th Century
5 3/4 in. x 3 1/2 in. x 3 1/2 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:
1959.179.a&b
An English, earthenware teapot decorated with a blue transfer-print showing a man with a harp walking with two deer. This patter is called "Thomas the Rhymer." This type of pottery is refered to as Staffordshire for the region in England where it was made.