£1850
Dated: 1760 Staffordshire England UK
The stoneware teapot with original cover is a globular shape and decorated in enamel colors and a saltglaze. The chinoiserie type decoration is profusely and expertly applied to show a female musician and a male figure admiring plants in a garden urn while holding a fan. Flowers and leaves adorn the piece which has crabstock handle and spout, a feature of early pottery of the mid 18th century.
Dimensions: 4.75 inches high, 8.5 inches wide, 5 inches long
Current Condition: Good restoration at the tip of the spout and to the cover.
Provenance: Private Collection of a Lord ,Westminster London, and then Birkett Collection London. Now in early British Pottery collection of a gentleman in the Home Counties England.
Literature: White Salt-Glazed STONEWARE of the British Isles by Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampson.
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The stoneware teapot with original cover is a globular shape and decorated in enamel colors and a saltglaze.
The chinoiserie type decoration is profusely and expertly applied to show a female musician and a male figure admiring plants in a garden urn while holding a fan. Flowers and leaves adorn the piece which has crabstock handle and spout, a feature of early pottery of the mid 18th century.
| Dimensions | 5 × 8.5 × 4.75 in |
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