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The Chocolate Kettle with stand also known as a Tea Kettle manufactured by Hartley Greens & Co Leeds
Pottery
The Chocolate Kettle with stand also known as a Tea Kettle based on the original dated late 18th Century, earthenware, glazed pale cream, this is commonly described as Creamware, Pearlware, Leedsware,
China Glaze or even Salt Glaze. This kind of pottery has often wrongly
been described as porcelain but not to be understated, creamware was
described by L. M. Solon, one of the earliest and best of the
writer/collectors as having "exemplified what genuine old
English art had been in its pristine days".
The Chocolate Kettle or Tea Kettle, was designed with a depressed globular shape with a curved spout moulded with a female mask and foliage, large intertwined wavy rope handle with flower and leaf terminals and a large pierced baluster-knob on the lid. The bowl shaped stand on three lion masks and paw feet and provided with three shell and three foliate projections on the rim to support the kettle, the sides with panels of openwork
pattern often described as pierced ware.
Examples of the elegant Chocolate Kettle or Tea Kettle can be seen in museums throughout the world, and in England local to the old pottery site at Temple Newsam House Leeds.
The current production of this exquisite collectable piece with its stand can be purchased in the Leeds Pottery shop at
www.worldwideshoppingmall.co.uk see this
and many other historically fashioned items at the Mall. |
