Teapot
Manufacturer
Wedgwood Factory
(English, founded 1759)
Date1810
MediumStoneware with metallic oxide stain (rosso antico)
DimensionsOverall: 4 3/4 × 7 1/4 × 10 1/4 inches (12.07 × 18.42 × 26.04 cm)
Part (lid): 1 7/8 × 4 1/2 inches (4.76 × 11.43 cm)
Part (lid): 1 7/8 × 4 1/2 inches (4.76 × 11.43 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: the John S. Doud Fund
Object number2022.1.1.1,2
InscribedApparent former accession number "77-2-1A" in yellow
Markings‘WEDGWOOD’ is stamped into the bottom of the foot, with an additional unidentified mark stamped above the ‘D’.
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionTeapot with moulded and applied decoration with a lid containing a crocodile finial.Gallery LabelWhat is a crocodile doing on an English teapot? It, along with applied (“sprigged”) motifs of sphinxes, lotuses, falcons, papyri, and the stylized eye of Horus, references ancient Egyptian motifs. After the French emperor Napoleon’s troops invaded Egypt in 1798 and published engravings of Egyptian monuments that became international bestsellers, ancient Egyptian imagery became fashionable in European decorative arts, architecture, and fashion. Ever attuned to trends, the Wedgwood factory followed the fad.
Robin Reilly and George Savage, The Dictionary of Wedgwood (Woodbridge, England, 1985; orig. publ. 1980): 130–131; 301–303.
Robin Reilly, Wedgwood (New York: Stockton Press, 1989): II, p. 819 (ill.)
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