Object name: Miniature teapot / Culture or time period: Western European cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Miniature teapot, accession number 7-10085a,b, described as Teapot with detached lid with gold trim, gold trim around the tea pot nozzle. Handle is on the top going up and over the lid. Crest on the pot is for the town of Luzern. Is a small shield divided vertically light blue and white; enframed by ornate gold frame which becomes a stand of which a man stands on either side. The men are nude with a bundle of leaves around the waist, they have beards and wearing a wreathed crown. On the outside hand, the right man holds a bushel of grass, the left man holds a sword. Beneath these scene is a blue ribbon with the name of Luzern. Made by W.H. Goss between 1858-1887, bottom describes pot as "Model of Old Terra Cotta kettle in Hereford Museum