Teapot
c. 1790
5 in. x 3 in. x 3 in.
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
porcelain
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1959.194.a&b
A Chinese export porcelain tea pot with molded, interlaced handles and a crooked spout. It has a hand-painted, overglaze flower and urn decoration in red and black. The rim had a blue band with dotted blue swags puctuated with red flowers.