Red stoneware, of cylindrical shape with straight spout and squared handle, ring on lid handle; blue, green and yellow opaque enamel decoration of flowers and dragon with rather geometric rim decoration.
teapots
covers (closures)
painting (image-making)
hand-painted
stoneware (pottery)
Chinese export
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Stoneware
Painted
Trade
Dragon
TEAPOT
1) Impressed on bottom underside: seal & characters [see accession file]. 2) Label on bottom underside: ""NFL"" 3) Label inside lid: ""Chinese stone / ware from estate of / Capt Oliver Lane / Annisquam / 1825-1850"". 4) Typed note inside (now in accession file): ""Chinese enameled teapot, Yi-hsing. / Brought to Gloucester by Capt. / Oliver G. Lane during the first / half of the 19th century.""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.185A,B
Unknown
6.25 x 8 x 5.125 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.185AB
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