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Teapot
Silver teapot engraved with the initials of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805).
Large oval teapot with a hinged lid with a wooden knop and a scrolled wooden handle. There are engraved bands of scrolling foliage around the body of the teapot, and a slender spout. One side is engraved with 'N' and a viscount's coronet within a wreath, and the other side with a 'B' and duke's coronet in a wreath.
Came through Miss Frances Girdlestone, who was descended from Nelson's sister Susannah, and was purchased at Sotheby's on 30 April 1936 by Sir Percy Malcolm-Stewart for the NMM.
Large oval teapot with a hinged lid with a wooden knop and a scrolled wooden handle. There are engraved bands of scrolling foliage around the body of the teapot, and a slender spout. One side is engraved with 'N' and a viscount's coronet within a wreath, and the other side with a 'B' and duke's coronet in a wreath.
Came through Miss Frances Girdlestone, who was descended from Nelson's sister Susannah, and was purchased at Sotheby's on 30 April 1936 by Sir Percy Malcolm-Stewart for the NMM.
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Object Details
| ID: | PLT0125 |
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| Collection: | Decorative art |
| Type: | Teapot |
| Display location: | Display - Traders Gallery |
| Creator: | Emes, John |
| Date made: | 1801; 1801-02 1801-1802 |
| Exhibition: | Traders: The East India Company and Asia |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Malcolm Stewart Collection |
| Measurements: | 195 x 305 x 135 mm |
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