Teapot

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Teapot

Datec. 1740–1760

Made inEngland

MediumLead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)

Dimensions6 1/8 × 8 1/2 in. (15.6 × 21.6 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.60.10.A,.B

Current Location

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Ceramics Study Room

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

CERAMICS

DescriptionPotters made agateware by combining and layering different colors of clay before forming the pots on the wheel or in molds. When thrown on a potter’s wheel, agateware typically exhibits swirling spirals of color. The most elaborately patterned agatewares feature clays stacked in thin layers before rolling, slicing, and recombining the components into slabs that the potter pressed into molds. Complex forms, like this squirrel-shaped teapot, required multiple molds.
Provenance[Otto M. Wasserman, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, February 10, 1960; given to MFAH, by 1966.
Exhibition History"A Present from the Staffordshire Potteries," Theta Charity Antiques Show of Houston, George R. Brown Convention Center, September 23–26, 2004.

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