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Tea service
Artist: Herculaneum Pottery
Location: Walker Art Gallery
Date: circa 1812-1815
Materials: porcelain
Dimensions: teapot height: 17.8cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £3,000 (Total: £10,000)
Vendor: Roderick Jellicoe
Review number: 5926 (2007)
Provenance:
Sotheby’s, 1972; private collection; Sotheby's, 2006; Roderick Jellicoe.
Description:
The service comprises teapot, sugar box, milk jug, bread and butter plate, cups and saucers and coffee cans. This is the finest Herculaneum service known to survive and the painting is attributed to Samuel Williams. The continuous painted scenes of rural landscapes are different on every piece, and no scene or figure is repeated. They include scenes with travelers, soldiers and country folk with various domestic animals and may represent a jouney from Liverpool to London. The pottery was based in Mersey and National Museums Liverpool has the best collection of Herculaneum ceramics.
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