Teapot Stand

Artists

Description

Straight-sided oval, bright-cut engraved with bands of stylised foliage and each side with a shield-shaped cartouche, one engraved with a crest and script initials NS, the hinged domed cover with conforming decoration and stained ivory pineapple finial, with tapering spout and wood loop handle; the oval stand with wrigglework borders, raised on four part-fluted shaped feet, with conforming decoration and the same crest

Dimensions

2.5 × 17.8 × 13 cm (1 × 7 × 5 1/8 in.) 132 g

Provenance

C. R. Simpkins, Cambridge, MA, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933.