Teapot in the form of a pineapple
Whieldon type
ca. 1750–70
Medium
Lead-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Overall: 3 5/8 × 6 in. (9.2 × 15.2 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
probably British, Staffordshire
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1914
Accession Number
14.68.6a, b
Tags
Fruit
About the Artist
Whieldon type
Whieldon-type is not a single artist but a catalogue attribution used by museums for unmarked mid-18th-century Staffordshire earthenware in the manner of Thomas Whieldon (1719-1795), the celebrated English potter of Fenton Vivian. Whieldon perfected lead-glazed cream-colored earthenware streaked and dappled with metallic oxides - manganese browns, copper greens, cobalt blues - producing the mottle...