£2750
Dated: 1745 Newcastle under Lyme Staffordshire
Redware glazed pottery teapot was made mid-18th century and attributed to Samuel Bell's Pomona Pottery in Newcastle under Lyme. The shape is more often found in saltglaze. Shards have been discovered in saltglaze and redware on the site of the Pomona Pottery. The teapot is lozenged shaped and stands on stepped foot; the handle and spout are in the form of a serpent, the cover with a seal finial, and the sides are relief molded with shells set in decorative arched panels.
Dimensions: 6.5 inches high
Current Condition: Professionally restored tip of spout, handle re-attached, chip at finial by conservator of ceramics to the Royal family.
Provenance: Collection of a gentleman in the Home Counties England.
Literature: Re.Peter Walton Creamware and other Pottery at Temple Newsam House Leeds (1976) figure 91 page 37 illustrates a similar form
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Redware glazed pottery teapot was made mid-18th century and attributed to Samuel Bell’s Pomona Pottery in Newcastle under Lyme.
The shape is more often found in saltglaze. Shards have been discovered in saltglaze and redware on the site of the Pomona Pottery.
The teapot is lozenged shaped and stands on stepped foot; the handle and spout are in the form of a serpent, the cover with a seal finial, and the sides are relief molded with shells set in decorative arched panels.
| Dimensions | 6.5 in |
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