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The tough slip-cast white stoneware is very thin, almost to the point of translucency.<br><br><b>Design & Designing</b><br>This pot has no prototypes in Chinese porcelain, although the general shape owes much to the products of two Dutch silversmiths, John Philip Elers and his brother David, who had made red stonewares in great secrecy at Bradwell Wood, Staffordshire, in the 1690s. No doubt many of their pots were  available locally for copying. The early makers of block-moulds, desperate for Chinese designs with links to tea-drinking, have here used a source already 75  years old, converting engravings into bas-relief decoration, leaving the titles to explain their significance.<br><br>Although only about five examples of this teapot survive, the fact that these were made from several slightly differing moulds suggests a certain degree of popularity at the time. One of them is made of lead-glazed red earthenware, confidently dateable to the 1740s.","physicalDescription":"Small moulded, hexagonal, white salt-glazed stoneware teapot, the panels with moulded scenes adapted from Nieuhof's <font -u>Embassy</font -u> of 1669; with lid. 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