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Medium
stoneware
Measurements
(a-b) 12.8 × 21.1 × 13.9 cm (overall) (teapot)
(c) 7.7 × 14.3 × 9.1 cm (milk jug)
(d-e) 9.3 × 8.7 cm diameter (overall) (sugar box)
(f-g) 7.5 × 15.0 cm diameter (overall) (teacup and saucer)
(h-i) 8.2 × 13.2 cm diameter (overall) (coffee cup and saucer)
Place/s of Execution
Hornsea, East Yorkshire, England
Inscription
(a) printed in white on base c.: OVEN TO TABLEWARE / DISHWASHER FREEZER AND / (two doves) / CONTRAST / ●● ●●●●● / ● / MICROWAVE OVEN SAFE / HORNSEA ENGLAND
(c) printed in white on base c.: OVEN TO TABLEWARE / DISHWASHER FREEZER AND / (two doves) / CONTRAST / ●● ●●●●● / ● / MICROWAVE OVEN SAFE / HORNSEA ENGLAND
(d) printed in white on base c.: OVEN TO TABLEWARE / DISHWASHER FREEZER AND / (two doves) / CONTRAST / ● ●●●●●● / MICROWAVE OVEN SAFE / HORNSEA ENGLAND
(f) printed in white on base c.: OVEN TO TABLEWARE / DISHWASHER FREEZER AND / (two doves) / CONTRAST / ●●●●●●●● / ● / MICROWAVE OVEN SAFE / HORNSEA ENGLAND
(g) printed in white on base c.: OVEN TO TABLEWARE / DISHWASHER FREEZER AND / (two doves) / CONTRAST / ●● ●●●●● / ● / MICROWAVE OVEN SAFE / HORNSEA ENGLAND
(h) printed in white on base c.: HORNSEA / ENGLAND
(i) printed in white on base c.: HORNSEA / ENGLAND
Accession Number
2017.512.a-i
Department
International Decorative Arts
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of John Hinds, 2017
Gallery location
Not on display
Physical description
A stoneware tea service consisting of a teapot, milk jug, sugar box and two cups and saucers. The components have a matte brown glaze on the exterior with white-glazed interiors to the cups and saucers, sugar box and milk jug. The bottom edge of each piece is decorated with a broad stripe of gloss dark brown glaze beneath a thin line of white. The same brown and white stripes and found on the lids of vessels and on the rims of the saucers.