A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE SMALL FOOTED TEAPOT AND COVER

Details

A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE SMALL FOOTED TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1760

With bird finial, crabstock handle and spout, the sides applied with trailing fruiting vine, on three paw feet headed by masks and allover mottled brown glaze, cover rim and finial restored, small chip to spout 4in. (10.2cm.) high

Provenance

With Mark & Marjorie Allen, Putnam Valley, New York

Lot Essay

Cf. Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1987 reprint, vol. I, p. 46, no. 669 for a similar example; see also Ruth Nugent Head, Christie's New York, October 9, 1985, lot 498; and The Herbert and Sylvia Jacobs Collection, Christie's New York, January 24, 1994, lot 101