Teapot

Artists

Description

Fluted straight-sided oval, with wooden loop handle and tapering straight spout; the hinged domed cover with stained ivory finial; engraved each side with a vacant oval bright-cut cartouche; the stand of conforming outline, raised on four splayed feet, and engraved with a similar cartouche

Dimensions

15.88 x 27.31 x 10.8 cm (6 1/4 x 10 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.) 474 g

Provenance

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