Period: Late Victorian
Maker: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd.
This late Victorian teapot by Wedgwood has elegant proportions and is handsomely decorated in neoclassical style. The body harks back to the late 18th Century when English factories copied silver in porcelain. Silversmiths calls it a ‘commode shape.’ Printed symmetrical motifs are classically inspired – palmettes, swirling acanthus, crossed laurel leaves, a chain of oak leaves and acorns – as well as swags of roses. The dramatic slender spout is made up of tapering curved flutes, gilded in between. Miraculously, it has survived undamaged!
The base bears the stamp used by Wedgwood from 1878 to 1891.
Condition A little gilt rubbing, mainly to handle. Otherwise excellent.
Height: 13.9 cm; Length, tip of spout to edge of handle: 22.5 cm; Width/depth: 9 cm
Net weight: 502 g
Medium: Bone china (porcelain)
Origin: Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, England
