- Designer: Richard William Binns
- Modeler: James Hadley
- Manufacturer: Worcester Royal Porcelain Company
Double-Sided Teapot
1881
Physical Qualities
Porcelain, 6 1/4 x 7 x 3 1/4 in. (15.9 x 17.8 x 8.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts Acquisitions Endowment established by The Friends of the American Wing; and purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Anna Dorsey Cooke in Loving Memory of her Sister, Elsie Dorsey, and Gift of John Beverley Riggs
Object Number
2006.38
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2006; Margot Johnson, New York
"T 4 2." Stylelist Home (blog), 12 27, 2011. http://www.stylelist.com/david-park-curry/tea-for-two_b_1124388.html (accessed March 13, 2012).
Inscribed: Inscribed, underside: "Fearful consequences through the Laws of Natural Selection and Evolution of living up to one's teapot"
Markings: Firm's mark for 1882 on underside
Designer
Richard William Binns
1818–1899
English, born Ireland 1819 - 1900
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Manufacturer
Worcester Royal Porcelain Company
b. 1861
founded 1862
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On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 05B/Case 1
