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Lot Essay
The present teapot is possibly inspired by Trentham Hall of Trentham, Staffordshire. Near Stoke-on-Trent, this noble house was the former seat of the Duke of Sutherland and the ancestral home of the Leveson-Gower family. A carved stone armorial that was once above the entryway to the Hall can now be seen at the Trentham Estate Gardens.
The arms of Leveson-Gower impaling those of Pierrepont potentially represent the marriage of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (10 August 1694 - 25 December 1754), 2nd Baron Gower from 1709 to 1754. He was created 1st Earl Gower in 1746 (but there is no indication of a Barony or Earldom on the teapot).
Gower married firstly, 13 March 1711 or 1712, Lady Evelyn Pierrepont (6 September 1691 - 26 June 1729), daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull. Gower's first wife dies and he remarries in 1733. At this point, he would no longer use this coat-of-arms. It is also possible that these arms were used by one of Earl Gower's unmarried sons.
For a saltglazed stoneware mug with the Leveson-Gower arms, see Bernard Rackham and Herbert Read, English Pottery; Its development from Early Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1924, fig. 159 (City Art Gallery, Manchester, Greg Collection).
For a saltglazed stoneware mug with the arms of Bertie, Hales, Leveson-Gower and Fane, see Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Woodridge, Suffolk, 1987 reprint, Vols. I & II, no. 589, pl. 41.
The arms of Leveson-Gower impaling those of Pierrepont potentially represent the marriage of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (10 August 1694 - 25 December 1754), 2nd Baron Gower from 1709 to 1754. He was created 1st Earl Gower in 1746 (but there is no indication of a Barony or Earldom on the teapot).
Gower married firstly, 13 March 1711 or 1712, Lady Evelyn Pierrepont (6 September 1691 - 26 June 1729), daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull. Gower's first wife dies and he remarries in 1733. At this point, he would no longer use this coat-of-arms. It is also possible that these arms were used by one of Earl Gower's unmarried sons.
For a saltglazed stoneware mug with the Leveson-Gower arms, see Bernard Rackham and Herbert Read, English Pottery; Its development from Early Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1924, fig. 159 (City Art Gallery, Manchester, Greg Collection).
For a saltglazed stoneware mug with the arms of Bertie, Hales, Leveson-Gower and Fane, see Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Woodridge, Suffolk, 1987 reprint, Vols. I & II, no. 589, pl. 41.