Creamware teapot and cover, hand-painted on one side, with a three-masted vessel with red ensign and jack, three small boats in the sea. This ship painted on this teapot is the whaler ‘Polar Star’. On the other side an ornate coat of arms, painted in colours with stag supporters and stag's head crest, the motto 'LOVE AS BRETHREN' below. The pot is a cylindrical shape with double twist handles ending in flower and leaf terminals. It has a reeded spout and a coloured floral knop to the lid.

The fact that whaling vessels were depicted on domestic items like this show how important whaling was to the British economy in the early 19th century. Whale oil and whalebone had numerous uses in British homes and factories.