- Museum number
- P185A
P185B - Object
- Teapot, soft-paste porcelain, Chelsea Porcelain Factory, about 1755
- Description
- Tepot and cover, English, Chelsea, 1750-52. Soft-paste porcelain decorated in enamel colours, translucent glaze, with restored metal spout and handle. The body of the teapot of ovoid fluted shape, decorated in the Kakiemon style with the Quail pattern, one red and one blue quali together amidst flowering plants, an insect above, the reverse side with flowering plant and three more insects, the (repaired) cover and knop decorated in similar manner, riveted replacement metal spout and handle.
- Materials
- Porcelain
- Inscription
- None, but raised anchor period.
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- Ceramic
Lid - Subject
- Quail pattern
- Dimensions
- regular: 12.7cm (w)
Teapot
Chelsea Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain, about 1755
P185
Bequest of James Calder, 1944
European porcelain factories copied Japanese and Chinese decoration directly as well as inventing their own Oriental motifs. This pattern showing two quails beneath a tree first appeared in late seventeenth-century Japan. It was soon copied in China and at Meissen in Germany. In England it was the Meissen copies that served as models for factories such as Chelsea and Worcester.
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