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The overhead 'bucket' handle was common on Chinese porcelain or enamel teapots from Canton (Guangzhou province), but is not known on the red stonewares from Yixing (Jiangsu province). Here it may have been copied by the Elers brothers from a European engraving of Chinese teawares rather than from an actual Chinese teapot.<br><br><b>People</b><br>The Dutch brothers David and John Philip Elers, though now seen as pioneers in ceramic development, at the time made very little impression on the potters of Staffordshire. This was due partly to their pottery being at Newcastle under Lyme, some distance from the main pottery centre of Burslem, and partly to the secrecy with which they conducted their experiments and their production. The very high price of their products and their subsequent bankruptcy was not considered an example to follow.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>Red stoneware could only be made from suitable clay rich in iron, a seam of which the Elers found in Staffordshire. Even John Dwight, the founder of the Fulham Pottery who had patented manufacture of the material in 1684,  obtained his supplies from the same area. Where the Elers brothers failed was in using the uneconomical slip-casting technique, known to them from their silversmithing trade, for everything, including plain round forms.","physicalDescription":"","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Elers, David and John Philip","id":"A8059"},"association":{"text":"makers","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Red stoneware, slip-cast, with applied sprig-moulded decoration","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Stoneware","id":"THES48890"},{"text":"Drinking","id":"THES48965"},{"text":"Tea, Coffee & Chocolate wares","id":"THES48886"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2006AM0820","2006AM0821","2006AG1470","2017JX2921"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"56D","id":"THES49242"},"free":"","case":"CA13","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Teapot","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Bradwell Wood","id":"x36530"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1690-1698","earliest":"1690-01-01","latest":"1698-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by W. 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Height may be reduced if handle is replaced","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Impressed with four imitation Chinese characters","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":"A8877"},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Made at the Elers' factory, Bradwell Wood, Staffordshire (active 1690-1698)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Teapot, red stoneware, made by David and John Philip Elers, Bradwell Wood, 1690-1698","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Passion for Porcelain: masterpieces of ceramics from the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.","id":"AUTH321139"},"details":"pp.31-32","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nTRADE WITH CHINA<br>\nChinese potters at Jingdezhen copied European forms, working from drawings supplied by customers.  After about 1670 the increasingly popular custom of tea drinking in England encouraged the import of  teawares in porcelain and red stoneware. The Elers brothers, silversmiths from The Netherlands, used local materials to make fine red stoneware in Staffordshire.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["C.17-1932"],"accessionNumberNum":"17","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1932,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LM5213","2019LN2324","2019LR1527","2019LP3522","2019LP3482","2019LP2112","2019LR5074","2019LV6183","2019LW0819"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-06-24","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}