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1790-1810
GUSN-10866
Broken pearlware teapot of hexagonal shape and neo-classical design, with polychrome enamel and panels of yellow-ground and manganese transfer print of classical female and cupid, raised decoration - and a hexagonal lid with classical female and cupid finial; old and new breakage, now in many broken pieces. (needs much conservation.)
teapots
enamel paint
molding (forming)
pearlware
transfer printing
Neoclassical
Pearlware
Molded
Enamel
Neoclassical
Transfer Printed
TEAPOT
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.617
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