Museum number
2019.45b
Object
Compressed Cylindrical Teapot and Cover (cover), Bow Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, c.1754
Description
with short curved spout and thick loop handle, painted in a raised famille rose palette with an allover pattern of trailing vine, the grapes in tones of puce, the leaves in tones of green, the brown branches outlined in gilding, the base and cover with the painter's numeral 10. 4 1/4 in high.
Materials
soft-paste porcelain
On display?
No

Further description

Simple name
teapot (ceramics)
Founded in the mid-1740s, the Bow factory, located in Bow, now East London, was the first English manufacturer to make porcelain on a commercial scale. Bow porcelain was largely aimed at the middle-classes. Famous for its imitations of imported Chinese and Japanese porcelain, the factory also produced some of the earliest full-length figures in English porcelain. From the 1760s the quality declined and the factory closed around 1774. The factory’s legacy lives on as its use of bone ash in the manufacture of porcelain evolved into what we know as English bone china.

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