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                  DELFTWARE Beverage Wares 
D321. TEAPOT                                                            
                  Tea- and Coffee Wares 
London, probably Lambeth 
Probably Vauxhall 
1725-1730 
H.: 4 1/4" (10.8 cm); 
Diam. (body): 4 3/8" (1].] cm); 
Diam. (handle-spout): 7 7/8" (20 cm) 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained light buff 
TIN GLAZE: Slightly bluish white. 
Overall, excluding bottom edges of lid 
and footrim. 
SHAPE: Thrown. Flat strap handle 
(restored) with curled lower terminal. 
Triangular arrangement of three strainer 
holes (point up) at base of spout. Steam 
hole (pierced before firing) at base of 
finial Bottom recessed to create nar- 
row footrim. 
DECORATION: Painted. Three near- 
repeats of flower and insect motifs. 
Borders composed of crosses, horizon- 
tal lines, and (on lid) circles. Handle and 
spout bear concentric ovals; spout also 
bears graduated curves. Knop topped 
with flower. 
Published: Home, Collection, pt. 16, no. 452. 
his teapot shape, not refined and like a jar, has parallels in Chinese export
porcelain.' Unlike that of the pot in the previous entry (no. D320), the
cover is 
raised above the curve of the shoulder. The straight, tapered spout, also
occur- 
ring on Dutch teapots, is derived from those on Chinese ewers ancestral to
the 
export porcelain teaware. 
    When trying to vary the rhythm of the bold floral decoration, the decorator
reversed the direction of the middle butterfly but forgot to add a saltire
to one 
quatrefoil (shown) to match that on the other side of the pot. Thle dual-color
scheme for trellis-diaper borders and the lobes on the knop are unknown on
other teapots; the borders' iron-red dashes are an effective lightweight
foil to 
the heavy horizontal emphasis of the dark design between them. A similar
com- 
bination but in reverse-with double red slashes between four blue 
dashes-occurs on a saucer with flower heads between three blue spots, attrib-
uted to Vauxhall pottery around 1720 to 1730.1 Similar spots along the edges
of 
the handle are arranged like the annulets on another teapot,' but by compari-
son are large and solid like the dashes on each side of the spout. 
1. Tokyo, Chinese Ceramics, pt. 2, p. 164, no. 
644, also with prunus blossom decoration. 
2. Phillips (L), June 5-6, 1991, lot 147 (Dutch 
teapot); Lo Collection, Hong Kong, pp. 23-24, 
pls. 4-5 (ewers). 
3. Horne, Collection, pt. 16, no. 452. 
4. Atkins, Exhibition (1998), pp. 14-15, no. 29. 
5. Garner and Archer, Delftware, pl. 73B (Man- 
chester City Art Gallery, Greg collection). 
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