Royal Albert | Victoriana Rose | Large Six-to-Eight Cup Teapot | Pattern Copyright 1966
A teapot of this scale was made for a table that expected company — and it has lost nothing of its readiness to receive them.
Victoriana Rose carries a 1966 pattern copyright on its Royal Albert backstamps; the copyright records the pattern, not the year an individual piece was made. The pattern also appears under the Paragon name. Paragon became part of Thomas C. Wild & Sons, the makers of Royal Albert, in 1960. The teapot’s backstamp reflects the association between the two names. The design draws on the Victorian tradition of scattered rose sprays on a pale ground within a gilded scalloped edge.
The teapot is of generous globular form on a shaped foot, with a gently swelling body that carries the scattered Victoriana Rose sprays across its full surface — small clusters of pink roses in varying sizes with soft green foliage, distributed continuously so that the decoration reads well from all angles. The shoulder rises to a wide, deeply gadrooned and scalloped neck with a broad gilt rim, the fluting running down from the neck across the upper shoulder in the characteristic Royal Albert manner. The spout is straight and well proportioned with a gilt tip. The handle is of generous loop form with a heavily gilt upper terminal and lower spur, both fully intact. The lid is of a distinctive tall domed form — broader than the standard Royal Albert lid — with a deeply gadrooned and scalloped rim that mirrors the teapot neck precisely, the dome carrying scattered rose sprays and the whole surface finishing in a ribbed ovoid finial with gilt collar. The interior of the teapot body is glazed in the characteristic warm ivory of the bone china body, clean and bright throughout.
The teapot is in excellent condition, with no chips, cracks or crazing to the body, lid, spout or handle. The gilding is bright and intact at the rim, foot ring, handle terminals, spout tip and lid edge.
Key Details
- Maker: Royal Albert, with Paragon named on the backstamp; Longton, Staffordshire, England
- Pattern: Victoriana Rose
- Backstamp: Royal Albert ® | Bone China | England | Paragon | Victoriana Rose | © 1966 Royal Albert Ltd (dark crown, dark print)
- Shape: Large globular teapot with tall domed gadrooned lid and ribbed ovoid finial
- Pieces: 2 — teapot body and lid
- Material: Bone china
- Capacity: Six to eight cups
- Period: Pattern copyright 1966; date of manufacture not established
- Decoration: Scattered pink rose sprays with green foliage on ivory ground; gilt scalloped rim, handle terminals, spout tip, foot ring and lid edge
- Condition: Excellent — no chips, cracks or crazing; gilding intact
- Buyer profile: Royal Albert or Paragon collector; buyer seeking a large-capacity teapot in an English rose pattern
Collector Appeal
A large teapot with its tall gadrooned lid, in a pattern carried under both the Royal Albert and Paragon names.
Other ‘Victoriana Rose’ pieces from the shop: Paragon ashtray, cake plate, milk jug and sugar bowl and five trios.
Some objects are made to be used and some to be kept — this one was kept, which means it is now available to be used, which is exactly as it should be.
