A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE GLOBULAR TEAPOT AND COVER

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A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE GLOBULAR TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1765

With recumbent lamb finial, cabbage leaf moulded spout, and scroll handle, moulded with a house with sheep and cows in a landscape and splashed in green, ochre and brown, Jacobs Collection no. 598 (restoration to spout, crack to one side, piece restuck to base, finial chipped)--5 1/8in. (13cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Walton, Temple Newsam, p. 82, no. 272; Rackham, Schreiber Collection, pl. 43, no. 291 for similar examples; see also, Barker and Halfpenny, Unearthing Staffordshire, pp. 95 and 96 for a discussion on the attribution problems associated with this pattern