A STAFFORDSHIRE GLAZED REDWARE ARMORIAL TEAPOT AND COVER

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ENGLISH CERAMICS AND AMERICAN GLASS FROM THE WILLIAM BURTON GOODWIN COLLECTION (LOTS 301-341)

A STAFFORDSHIRE GLAZED REDWARE ARMORIAL TEAPOT AND COVER

CIRCA 1740-1745

Details

A STAFFORDSHIRE GLAZED REDWARE ARMORIAL TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1740-1745
Of compressed pear form, with lion finial and loop handle, sprigged in cream slip on both side with British Royal insignia including a crown flanked by lion and unicorn supporters above flowers and foliage, the spout, mouth and top of the handle edged in cream
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

With Ginsburg & Levy, New York, 15 March 1935.
W.B. Goodwin, collection no. 108.

Exhibited

Portland Museum of Art, loan no. 2.1983.80.

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Lot Essay

Related armorial redware shards have been excavated at a small number of sites in Staffordshire, including a waster decorated with the Royal Arms and motto found at the Thomas Whieldon, Fenton Vivian factory site.

For examples applied with the British Royal Arms, see Leslie B. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware, 1650-1800, London, 1990, p. 262, no. 148.

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