Tea Service, Toy
- Object Name:
- Tea Service, Toy
- Object ID:
- 1936.004.02
- Date:
- circa 1795
- Description:
- Toy Tea Set, Pearlware, earthenware. Set includes teapot with removable lid, sugar bowl with removable lid, four handless teacups and three saucers. All pieces decorated in hand painted polychrome bird design done in yellow,amber, brown and green. Teapot has a round body with a cone shaped spout, loop handle and straight sided rim. It has a shallow dome shaped lid with a round finial and one vent hole. The sugar bowl is flower pot shaped with a slightly flaring upper edge. Sugar bowl has a wide dome shaped lid with a finial. Cups are round with deep base rings. Saucers are round and shallow with deep base rings. The bird figure on each piece is a profile view with the head looking backwards. Body is yellow, amber with a long amber tail and dots on the amber neck. The bird is surrounded with green and brown branches. No maker's mark seen.
Object register:
a. teapot
b. teapot lid
c. sugar bowl
d. sugar bowl lid
e. saucer
f. saucer
g. saucer
h. cup
i. cup
j. cup
k. cup - Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearl ware - Provenance:
- This tea set and tray was bought in Boston in 1795 by Col. Jacob Wright (1758-1844) and carried on horse back to his home in Washington, NH for his little daughter, Susan Wright (1792-1881), who was then four years old. Col. Wright served in the Revolutionary War, was in the Battle of Bennington and was one of the guard which escorted Burgoyne, a prisoner of war, from that place to Cambridge. He was with General Washington a great deal and they were firm friends while in the army.
The set was donated by Malvina A. Jefts-Young- Baker (1836-1930) of Nashua, who was a grand-daughter of Col. Jacob Wright, and a life member of the Matthew Thornton Chapter, D.A.R., of Nashua, NH, June 13, 1921. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Margaret H. Jewell
- Subjects:
- Childhood & youth, Children, Children's tea parties, Tea, Tea ceremonies, Imports, Trade
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