Company Treasures
Browse the extensive collection of Shipwrights' treasures collected over the years.
Browse the extensive collection of Shipwrights' treasures collected over the years.
6.5/8ins. high, hand painted with on one side the Shipwrights’ arms in black, red and yellow, and the monogram WK above the date 1784 within a cartouche; and on the other a ship on her launching ways in black.
The lid is of the same period, but is not the original and does not match the design of the teapot. It is printed in black with flowers and scrolls.
On the base of the teapot is an early 20th.C label on which is typed:
Probably
made to
commemorate
the launching
of H.M.S. 10th.
Adventure.
with in ink the letters
Wool
“Adventure” was Ship Number 88 built by John Perry (P. Perry & Company) at the famous Blackwall Yard. A fifth-rate 44-gun ship of 896 tons, she was launched on 19th. July 1784, and dismantled at Sheerness in 1816.
The Company bid unsucessfully for this item at auction by Sothebys in 1986. It went toBermudafor resale, and was eventually obtained from the purchaser (a collector of armorial china, who said that he would like this piece to be kept in the Company’s collection) for the price he had paid for it, and brought back toLondon, the additional cost being contributed by the following members of the Company:
C.H. Baylis, CB, (Clerk) Assistant to the Court
A.H. Farley Liveryman
E.N. Hurrell Liveryman
Derek B. Kimber, OBE, FEng. Renter Warden
Captain W.R.H. Lapper, RN. Liveryman
David I. Moor Assistant to the Court
Graham R. Newman Third Warden
(267/1986)
