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<p>[QUOTE="ValerieK, post: 2714950, member: 7360"]I misremembered</p><p><br /></p><p>I misremembered, Berthoud has the date as circa 1825. The teapot he pictures would have been dated by the style, which he calls "Later London or Cottage Shape". I'm no good at identifying pastes - I really wish I was! - but Berthoud has described it as bone china, (and he should know), which I think I can see from their lightness and kind of glassy look. I think the camera exaggerated the difference in colours, but the yellower one must have been a different firing or time in the kiln, or composition of the glaze. The painter of the teapot (I'll add the picture below) looks more like the one on the right, with rounder leaves and more veins in the yellow flower, but it might be a third painter. Berthoud says the teapot has a pattern number 9, one of us must be reading the number upside down. Incidentally, Michael Berthoud's books on cups, teapots and creamers are all invaluable aids to identifying 18th and early 19th century china patterns, but they seem to have shot up in price recently, I wouldn't be able to afford them if I was buying them now! I'll also attach a photo of the base, which I tried and failed to do before. (You can also see the footrim in the photo showing the number.) Thanks for all your input![ATTACH=full]275726[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]275727[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ValerieK, post: 2714950, member: 7360"]I misremembered I misremembered, Berthoud has the date as circa 1825. The teapot he pictures would have been dated by the style, which he calls "Later London or Cottage Shape". I'm no good at identifying pastes - I really wish I was! - but Berthoud has described it as bone china, (and he should know), which I think I can see from their lightness and kind of glassy look. I think the camera exaggerated the difference in colours, but the yellower one must have been a different firing or time in the kiln, or composition of the glaze. The painter of the teapot (I'll add the picture below) looks more like the one on the right, with rounder leaves and more veins in the yellow flower, but it might be a third painter. Berthoud says the teapot has a pattern number 9, one of us must be reading the number upside down. Incidentally, Michael Berthoud's books on cups, teapots and creamers are all invaluable aids to identifying 18th and early 19th century china patterns, but they seem to have shot up in price recently, I wouldn't be able to afford them if I was buying them now! I'll also attach a photo of the base, which I tried and failed to do before. (You can also see the footrim in the photo showing the number.) Thanks for all your input![ATTACH=full]275726[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]275727[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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