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Teapot

Dateca.1800-1815

Maker Richard & Thomas Hale

OriginEngland, Bristol

MediumPewter, wood, and paint

DimensionsHeight: 6 9/16"; Width across spout and handle; 7 7/8"; Maximum diameter: 4 5/8"

Credit LineGift of Scott and Debra Duncan

Object number2022-185

DescriptionPewter teapot with a pear-shaped body, a curved, facetted spout, and a double-domed and beaded-edge lid topped with a wood-disc finial. Its scrolled handle is painted in imitation of ebony and soldered to the body at the ends of integral octagonal sockets.
Label TextA number of generations of the Hale family manufactured pewter in Bristol, England from about 1783 until 1815. Many of their products were destined for export, often for sale in the United States. Its metal handle, cast in imitation of a wooden one, dates this teapot towards the later part of the Hale's period of production.
MarkingsBottom struck with an incuse "Crowned X" over "HALE."
ProvenanceEx. coll.; Frank M. Powell