Teapot

Norfolk Museums Service

Wedgwood creamware teapot and cover supporting the Birmingham-backed candidate, Sir Charles Holte, in the Warwickshire election of 1774. One side of the teapot features a man leaning against a post in a landscape with a building in the background on the left; the other side has the inscription 'Success to Sir Charles Holte Esq,'.

Norfolk Museums Service; Accession number: NWHCM : 1946.70.150

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Candidate: Charles Holte
Constituency: Warwickshire
date: c1774
Election: Oct-1774
keyword: Ceramics
keyword: Teapot
maker: David Rhodes (Decorator)
maker: Josiah Wedgwood (Factory)
materials: Creamware
place: London
place: Warwick
place: Warwickshire