miniature tea service

Summary

Public: Miniature tea service, comprising six circular tea bowls, six circular saucers, kettle, coffee pot, two globular teapots, two circular teapot stands, milk jug, circular sugar bowl with domed cover and a separate cover. Cream coloured earthenware body sponged with manganese brown underglaze oxide. Private: Six circular tea bowls, each with narrow footring and everted rim; six deep circular saucers, each with high sides, footring and everted rim; squat globular kettle with high strap handle; tapering cylindrical coffee pot with rounded belly and plain handle and spout; two globular teapots, each on everted foot with plain handle and spout; two circular teapot stands, both on tall flared footrings, one perforated with groups of three holes; pear-shaped milk jug with pinched lip and everted rim; deep circular sugar bowl on everted foot with flared rim and domed cover; separate cover, probably from small teapot, with button finial. Cream-coloured earthenware body sponged with manganese brown underglaze oxide, bleeding into glaze to give mottled and streaky patterns.