Lot 99
99
A CREAMWARE TEAPOT AND COVER

Details
A CREAMWARE TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1770

With shell finial, crabstock spout and handle, the body modelled as stump with mosses, leaves and vines and splashed allover in mottled tortoiseshell glazes, Jacobs Collection no. 352 (restoration to cover, spout and handle)--4½in. (11.5cm.) high
Exhibited
Design in the Service of Tea

Lot Essay

Cf. Taggart, Burnap Collection, p. 135 for a similar example; Emmerson, Twining, pl. 6, no. 43; Hobson, British Museum, pl. XXIV, no. G40 for a black basalt example impressed ASTBURY ; Mountford, Illustrated Guide, pl. 182 for a saltglaze model and Charleston; Jean Voyez, figs. 9 and 10