Heading : Large Tunbridge Ware Tea Pot
Stand with Mosaic featuring Climbing Roses
Date : 1848/49
Period : Victorian
Origin : Tunbridge Wells; labelled for Edmund Nye with a
handwritten notation inside stating '10th January 1849'
Decoration : The Rosewood Frame has four
chamfered edges each with a Berlin wool-work style climbing rose inside two
pairs of banded keylines. The frame is filled with a 'petit point' needlework
pad of stylised geometric pattern; the whole sits on four large bun feet
Condition : Good with regard to tile
completeness - one patch of four contiguous missing tesserae and
some singles lost; one of the corners has lost 8-10 pieces; one corner of
the pad is a little threadbare and there's another square of four missing
stitches; the base still has it's original lining paper affixed, but
has a split across its entire width; this does not affect the stability of the
piece and is, obviously, underneath so only becomes apparent should you turn
the thing over,
Restoration : None
Weight : 1365 g
Note : This
piece is something of a revelation, as the pad with its 'petit point'
embroidery on penelope or needlepoint canvas is very
much representative of the process by which the original Berlin
Wool-work patterns were produced and these - of course - inspired the whole use
of micro-mosaics on Tunbridge Ware in the first instance; it's fantastic to see
both art-forms in such harmonious proximity. WE could not find another complete
example anywhere. This may possibly be unique.
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Code: RP003