A transfer-printed creamware baluster coffee-pot and domed cover with ear-shaped handle, printed in black with The Tea Party, the reverse with a version of The Shepherd, the cover with two sprays of flowers, perhaps Yorkshire -- 11 1/8in. (28.2cm.) high, circa 1795 (restoration to tip of spout, hairline cracks to rim, the cover restored)

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A transfer-printed creamware baluster coffee-pot and domed cover with ear-shaped handle, printed in black with The Tea Party, the reverse with a version of The Shepherd, the cover with two sprays of flowers, perhaps Yorkshire -- 11 1/8in. (28.2cm.) high, circa 1795 (restoration to tip of spout, hairline cracks to rim, the cover restored)

See colour plate I

Lot Essay

PROVENANCE:
Anon., sale Christie's 1984

Cf. Wedgwood by Robin Reilly Vol. I, pl. 277

'The Tea Party' is sometimes said to represent Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood.

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