A YORKSHIRE OCHRE-GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER

Details

A YORKSHIRE OCHRE-GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1780, PROBABLY LEEDS

With blue sponged decoraion, Jacobs Collection no. 241 (restoration to spout, handle and cover)--3½in. (8.9cm.) high

Provenance

Eugene Cary Stoller; sale Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, April 12, 1970, lot 260
Mr. and Mrs. David E. Zeitlin

Lot Essay

In a letter to the Jacobs dated June 15, 1982, Peter Walton attributes this piece to the Leeds Pottery on the basis of shards of conforming shape similarly mottled in blue on an ochre ground which have been excavated at this site.