Teapot with Lid on Stand

Gallery 377, European Art 1500-1850, third floor

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Teapot with Lid on Stand

1998

Walter Keeler (English, born 1942)

Walter Keeler, a contemporary British potter, uses traditional methods of ceramic decoration in innovative and often witty ways. On this teapot, Keeler used sponged metallic oxides and included a crabstock handle (a handle in the form of a knotted branch of a crab apple tree). Pottery decorated with metallic oxides, traditionally referred to as "tortoiseshell ware," was popular in eighteenth-century England, and a number of the eighteenth-century works exhibited in this case have this type of decoration.

Gallery 377, European Art 1500-1850, third floor

Object Details

Title:

Teapot with Lid on Stand

Date:

1998

Artist:

Walter Keeler (English, born 1942)

Medium:

Lead-glazed earthenware with metallic oxide underglaze decoration

Dimensions:

7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (19.1 x 19.1 cm)

Classification:

Containers

Credit Line:

Purchased with the David E. Zeitlin Memorial Fund, 1998

Accession Number:

1998-75-1a--c

Geography:

Made in England, Europe

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Gallery 377, European Art 1500-1850, third floor

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