A Neale & Co. creamware fern pot, cover and stand
square-section, the convex pierced cover with central hole and twelve radiating smaller, above tapering pot with beaded rim and twin entwined serpent handles supporting moulded and applied swags, painted in green enamels to each side with a single flower and elsewhere enriched in green, the foot with an applied acathus-leaf border, the trough-base similarly moulded and painted -- 8ins. (20cms.) high, circa 1780-90 (some wear, flaking to enamels and some frits and chips)
See cover illustration
Lot Essay
C.f Diana Edwards, Neale Pottery and Porcelain, p.145, pl.120