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.Mark(s)Bottom struck with an incuse "Crowned X" over "HALE."ProvenanceEx. coll.; Frank M. Powell
ca.1810-1830
ca.1820-1850
1740-1760
