Teapot with Harlem Toile picnic scene

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A white bone china teapot (a) with lid (b) from the Wedgwood X Sheila Bridges collaboration, featuring the picnic vignette from Bridges' Harlem Toile de Jouy design. The teapot has an oval body with straight vertical walls, with a simple half-oval handle at one short end and a slightly curved spout at the other. The pot is white, with a thin black edging along the top rim, the top of the spout, the edges of the handle, and the edge of the lid and lid handle. On one side is a picnic scene depicting a young man and woman in 18th century clothing having a picnic on the ground under a tree. The top of the tree continues onto the flat lid of the teapot. Her purple dress and his red trousers are the only spots of color in the otherwise black, grey and white design.

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