A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE PINEAPPLE TEAPOT AND COVER

Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE PINEAPPLE TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1770

With floral finial, naturalistically moulded and coloured in ochre and green, cover with some restoration, restored cracks
5 3/8in. (13.7cm.) high
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, May 3, 1983, lot 288

Lot Essay

Cf. Leslie B. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800, London, 1990, pl. 91, nos. 354 and 380 for other pineapple pieces and shards from the Greatbatch Fenton site and from Whieldon's Fenton Vivian site; see also Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, vol. I, p. 158, no. 108; and The Herbert and Sylvia Jacobs Collection, Christie's New York, January 24, 1994, lot 114