Tea Service

Wedgwood

About 1830

  • Titles Tea Service (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium smear glazed stoneware
  • Dimensions teapot: 5 1/4 × 7 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (13.3 × 19.1 × 14 cm) sugar: 4 1/4 × 5 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (10.8 × 14 × 13.3 cm) creamer: 2 3/4 × 4 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. (7 × 10.5 × 7.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase, 2003.22.1-.3
  • Work Type tea service
  • Classification Containers

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Small, slender, heavily engraved silver sugar tongs the arms straight and decorated with bright cut engraving in a repeating pattern of floral and leafy motifs, the pointed wells with cross hatching, with an oval reserve designed for a monogram (left empty) between cross hatching and leafy elements.
Tall, urn-shaped vase of white stoneware covered with a green variegated glaze and resting on a small, square white stoneware plinth with diaper pattern around, the round foot with overlapping leaves and band of beading at the joint, the lower body with a band of stiff leaf motifs, with a wavescroll pattern below the shoulder and two long curved handles, the elongated neck likewise with band of stiff leaf motifs and beading, the cover with band of leaves and mushroom finial.
Hat pin comprised of a round medallion of white jasper with dark blue dip with white jasper bas relief of Terpsichore—a classical female figure holding a lyre standing next to a column with a figure on top—in a simple silver mount with long silver pin.
Tri-color jasperware strapware plate with (white, blue and beige). the jasperware is made to similate strapwork