{"id":2636,"date":"2010-07-14T14:10:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T19:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2016-07-17T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T13:43:06","slug":"admiral-nelson-teapot-c-1810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"Admiral Nelson teapot, c.1810"},"content":{"rendered":"

A black pottery teapot with relief decoration, made in England to\u00a0commemorate Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, who\u00a0died in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar. Nelson\u00a0become one of Britain’s greatest war heroes and many monuments in England have been erected in his memory<\/p>\n

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One side has a moulded relief vignette of a crocodile, a pyramid and a fort with military devices, surmounted by a banner titled “TRAFALGAR”, surrounded by classical acanthus leaves<\/p>\n

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Teapot measures 4-3\/4″ high and is 10″ long<\/p>\n

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The reverse side shows a monument with the figures of Britannia and Victory holding a shield inscribed “NELSON”<\/p>\n

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Remains of black enamel are seen on the side of the replaced tin spout. It was quite common for teapot spouts to break or chip and I have dozens of examples of this type of repair in my collection. I have even seen silver mounts on intact spouts that would have been attached at the time of purchase\u00a0for proactive protection<\/p>\n

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A well executed tin lid with turned pewter knob replaced the lost or broken lid. The large chipped scalloped edge remains unrepaired and was most likely damaged after the other repairs were done<\/p>\n

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This is another, more elaborate example of a black basalt teapot made to honor Admiral Nelson with similar decoration<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Christie’s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A black pottery teapot with relief decoration, made in England to\u00a0commemorate Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, who\u00a0died in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar. Nelson\u00a0become one of Britain’s greatest war heroes and many monuments in England have been erected in his memory One side has a moulded relief vignette of a crocodile, a pyramid and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,71,19,77,124],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teapot","tag-basalt","tag-commemorative","tag-english","tag-metal-lid","tag-metal-spout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11152,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/11152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}