Details
A Chelsea baluster teapot and cover
Circa 1756
The shaped ribbed handle with foliate thumbpiece, finely painted in a vibrant palette with exotic birds including two parrots perched on a knarled tree-stump and among branches of berried foliage, a dragonfly in flight above, the reverse with ombrierte butterflies, insects and a caterpillar, the domed cover with similar ombrierte decoration and with knob finial (slight crack to spout and rim of cover, some minor glaze crazing to rim of cover and spout, scratch to reverse through caterpillar), red anchor mark
5¾in. (14.5cm.) high
