Lot 32
32
A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE CAULIFLOWER TEAPOT AND COVER

Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE CAULIFLOWER TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1770

Naturalistically moulded and coloured, the lower section as scrolling green leaves, crack to handle, spout chipped, 4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) high; together with a Neale & Co. creamware oval pierced stand, circa 1790, impressed mark, moulded as basketwork, the pierced rim with sepia leaves and dark turquoise line, 9¾in. (24.8cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Margaret Williams Keep, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, October 19, 1963, lot 50, the teapot
With Wynn A. Sayman, Richmond, Massachusetts, the teapot
With Mrs. Wentwort Bacon, Millbrook, New York, the dish

Lot Essay

Tea wares made to resemble fruits and vegetables were popular in the third quarter of the Eighteenth century. Shards of cauliflower wares were found at Thomas Whieldon's Fenton Vivian site during the 1969 excavation and are now in the City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent. They were also produced by William Greatbatch at Lower Lane, Fenton, see David Barker, William Greatbatch, a Staffordshire Potter, London, 1991, pp. 255-260. For a discussion on pieces made by Josiah Wedgwood and others, see Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, vol. I, pp. 147-180. For other examples of cauliflower wares see Leslie B. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800, London, 1990, pp. 188-190.