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Teapot
1790-1820
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire or Yorkshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Stoneware (feldspathic, smear-glazed)
- Smear glaze
Museum Object Number
1964.0102
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Mrs. Frederick C. Tanner
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Object Number
1964.0102
Object Name
Teapot
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire or Yorkshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1790-1820
Subject(s)
- Literary scene
- Literature
- Werther
- Goethe
- Johann Wolfgang von
Materials
- Stoneware (feldspathic, smear-glazed)
- Smear glaze
Techniques
- Press-molded
- Painted
- Mold-applied
Dimensions (inches)
5.561 (H) x 4.213 (W) x 10.11 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
14.125 (H) x 10.7 (W) x 25.68 (L)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Adams, Elizabeth Bryding. 1992 The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood Collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
• Templetown information: p. 120; teapot with "Charlotte Weeping...": color plate 103, p. 120Book: Reilly, Robin. 1989 Wedgwood.
• Templetown and Hackwood information: p. 605Book: Edwards, Diana & Hampson, Rodney. 1998 English Dry-Bodied Stoneware: Wedgwood and Contemporary Manufacturers 1774-1830.
• Similarly molded white feldspathic stoneware teapot: fig. 139, p. 124, attributed to Chetham and Woolley by shards dated c. 1800- 1820Book: Henrywood, R. K. 1997 An Illustrated Guide to British Jugs.
• Same theme printed Staffordshire creamware jug: p. 53, pl. 134, black-printed with prints signed "G. Brammer of Shelton", one of "Werther Going to Shoot Himself" and one "Charlotte Weeping over the Tomb of Werter"Book: Griffin, John D. 2005 The Leeds Pottery: 1770- 1778. 1.
• Leeds Pottery sprig mold portraying Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther: p. 245, no. 364, item 11Book: Northern Ceramic Society. 1982 Stonewares and Stone Chinas of Northern England to 1851.
• Explanation of smear-glazing process: pp. 109-110