Hand-painted Daisy Pattern Teapot

DecoratorDecorated by Mary Fairgrieve (Glasgow, Scotland, 1875 - 1967)

Datec. 1920

Object NameTeapot

Mediumearthenware

ClassificationsCeramics

DimensionsHeight: 14.2 cm
H-S: 20.2cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1992.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDMS015768

Keywords

Art Pottery
Drinking

About MeTeapot hand painted with decoration of pink and lilac daisies which appear frequently in Fairgrieve's work. She attended art classes at Glasgow School of Art in 1908, leaving at the outbreak of the First World War to work from her Greenock home. For nearly half a century her sweetly painted floral wares were her main source of income.

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Fairgrieve, who studied at Glasgow School of Art before the First World War, is best known for sweetly painted floral wares, but she was also a skilled needlewoman

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