Squared, swelling shape with squared base; molded white clay body with S-shaped spout; scalloped lip receiving squared "hipped" dome lid originally with finial (broken off); underglaze blue transfer print decoration: central Tyrolean-type cottage scene; dotted patterned scroll foot border; scroll and floral border at mouth.
teapots
earthenware
vitrification
transfer printing
underglazing
cottages
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Staffordshire
Underglazed
Transfer Printed
Cottage
TEAPOT
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
England
7 (H) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.662AB
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