Printed "Ontario Lake Scenery" Patterned Whiteware Teacup

Light-blue transfer-printed whiteware teacup with the "Ontario Lake scenery" pattern manufactured by Joseph Heath pottery, circa 1841–1851, Tunstall, Staffordshire, England. This idealized view of Lake Ontario shows two couples and one seated individual in the foreground with a turreted Italianate-building and distant mountains in the background. 

• Object number

  160

• Date made

  Circa 1841 - 1853

• Dimensions

  Height 7 cm

  Diameter 9 cm

• Decoration

  Printed

• Color

  Blue, Light

• Animals/objects

  Teacup

• Patterns

  Ontario Lake Scenery

• Category

  Household

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Teaware

• Forms

  Base/Body/Rim/Handle

• Ware types

  Whiteware