Teapot and Stand

Artists

Description

The teapot straight-sided oval with wooden loop handle and straight tapering spout, with hinged domed cover with oval wood finial, decorated with horizontal wriggle-work bands, engraved on one side with a coat of arms within a bright-cut shield-shaped cartouche and, on the other side, with a crest within a similar cartouche; the oval stand with conforming decoration, raised on four reeded splayed feet, the center engraved with the same crest.

Dimensions

14.61 x 26.19 x 9.21 cm (5 3/4 x 10 5/16 x 3 5/8 in.)

Provenance

C. R. Simpkins, Cambridge, MA, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933.