New Hall 'Silver Shaped' Teapot in the style of
'Chinese Export Ware', pattern No. 241, c1790
(p1068)
A charming example of a New Hall 'Silver Shaped' teapot,
decorated in the style of 'Chinese Export Ware'. This beautiful teapot was made
at the New Hall factory in Sheldon, Stoke-on-Trent in about 1790. New Hall
specialised in tea wares at the end of the eighteenth century and produced a
'hybrid paste' body, trying to emulate the hard paste porcelain of Germany and
China.
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This particular example of a New Hall teapot, is called a
'silver shaped' teapot as it was copying the then fashionable shape of teapots
made in solid silver, which gives this teapot a complex and very pleasing shape.
The decoration of the teapot is in coloured enamels, with patterns popular on
Chinese Export porcelain coming to England at that time.
There are charming sprays of coloured flowers painted on
the sides of the teapot.
The square shoulder has a lovely pink and
green decorative entwined lines
which includes pink flower heads. This same decorative
feature is also applied around the lid of the teapot.
The teapot spout is of an elegant shape, not round in
section but moulded with facets. The tip is decorated with pink applied to the
top edge and then having pink dots running part the way down its front face.
The handle is of a looped form and as with the spout it is
embellished with pink decoration.
The lid of the pot fits snugly into a raised collar
section. There is a pierced set of straining holes on the inside of the pot at
the entrance to the spout for holding back the large tea leaves. The teapot is
marked on the underside with the New hall pattern number 241.
The finial to the lid is of a drawn up flower bud shape
capped with pink vertical lines. New Hall made this finial hollow allowing the
steam from the tea to escape. Most other manufacturers were using a separate
hole off to one side of the finial, so this is a most an interesting feature.
This is a teapot of great charm
and character. It is a fine example from the New Hall factory c1790 and would make a
splendid addition to a collector of New Hall or eighteenth century china or tea
wares.
Size and Weight: (values are approximate)
Marks:
The teapot is marked on the underside in black with the New
Hall pattern number 'N353'.
This is a truly beautiful teapot that is in quite good condition
for its age, with
only a flake chip to the tip of the spout. Below are several pictures of
the one chip on the spout to try to show it as clearly as possible. Otherwise there are no cracks, repairs or restoration.
This one chip is minor in a teapot of this age and the
teapot remains a delightful example for the collector of fine quality eighteenth
century tea wares or New Hall porcelain.
