A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE CYLINDRICAL BUTTER-BOX AND COVER

Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE CYLINDRICAL BUTTER-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1760

With cow finial, the cover and sides applied with fruiting vine and allover mottled brown glaze, some restoration
4in. (10.2cm.) wide
Provenance
With Wynn A. Sayman, Richmond, Massachusetts

Lot Essay

Cf. Arnold R. Mountford, The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware, London, 1971, fig. 136 for three saltglaze examples and mention of an unglazed biscuit cover excavated at the Fenton Vivian site in 1969; see also Peter Walton, Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House Leeds, London, 1976, fig. 423 for a creamware example with a pierced cover and cow finial; and Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, vol. I, p. 152, fig. 96 for a basket-moulded example with a coloured glaze