A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZED STONEWARE YELLOW-GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER
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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZED STONEWARE YELLOW-GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER

CIRCA 1750-1760

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZED STONEWARE YELLOW-GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1750-1760
Of hexagonal form with crabstock handle and spout, the sides slip-cast with six oval panels of a male figure holding a pennant and buildings in the Chinoiserie taste
5½ in. (14 cm.) high; 8 in. (20.4 cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
With Guitel Montague, New York (paper label).
W.B. Goodwin Collection, no. 72.
Exhibited
Portland Museum of Art, loan no. 2.1983.179.
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Lot Essay

The Chinoiserie panels found on this teapot are adapted from designs for 'The Lidd of a Powder Box' and 'For ye top or Lid of a Combe Box', see John Stalker and George Parker's, Treastise of Japaning and Varnishing, Oxford, 1688, pls. 1,3,5,7 and 8.

For extensive comparative literature and notes on the archeological evidence found on the sites of Samuel Bell's pottery in Newcastle-under-Lyme and in Broad Street, Shelton, see Peter William and Pat Halfpenny, A Passion for Pottery, Further Selections from the Henry H. Weldon Collection, New York, 2000, p. 68-69, fig. 28 a and b (the cover matched). Compare a jade colored example at the High Museum of Art, Donald C. Pierce, English Ceramics, The Frances and Emory Cocke Collection, Atlanta, 1988, p. 31, no. 21.

For a closely matched design source page taken from a First Edition of Stalker [and Parker], see Christie's, South Kensington, 28 November 2011, lot 183, this rare First Edition (a variant giving only Stalker's name on the title).

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