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
1775-1778
Dimensions
  • Height: 9.00 in (22.86 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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