To Serve and Project: Theiere Calabre, 1780

Theiere Calabre
Tea Pot, Sevres, France, 1780
The Victoria & Albert Museum

This teapot and cover of soft-paste porcelain is painted with enamels and gilded. The enamel decoration takes the form of  wreaths of roses and cornflowers between “bleu celeste” bands.  A finial of fruit and leaves surmounts the lid. 

It was made at the Sèvres Porcelain Factory, France, circa 1780 by Monsieur Nicquet who served as the painter.