Additional Image:

A saucer and a milk jug also printed with The Good Cross Chapel pattern. Note that these pieces have a painted trellis border, whilst the teapot has a simple double line border.

 

Shape Type: Breakfast & Tea Wares

Pattern Type: Miscellaneous

Date: c. 1775-1778

Dimensions:

  • Height: 3.54 in (9.00 cm)

Maker: Lowestoft

Description:

This small Lowestoft tea pot is somewhere between a bachelor pot and a miniature in size.  It is printed with a distinctive pattern known as The Good Cross Chapel that is only found on Lowestoft porcelain.  Although this name is of some long-standing, it is purely a collectors' term and has no connection with the pre-Reformation Chapel of the Good Cross in Lowestoft that became a domestic...


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