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A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE HEXAGONAL TEAPOT AND COVER, CIRCA 1765, with griffin finial, acanthus moulded scroll handle and shell spout, moulded with Chinese figures in rectangular panels and splashed in green, blue and ochre glazes--8¼in. wide overall

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A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE HEXAGONAL TEAPOT AND COVER, CIRCA 1765, with griffin finial, acanthus moulded scroll handle and shell spout, moulded with Chinese figures in rectangular panels and splashed in green, blue and ochre glazes--8¼in. wide overall

Lot Essay

Cf. Leslie B. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection: English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800, London, 1990, pl. 95a & b; David Barker and Pat Halfpenny, Unearthing Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, 1990, p. 56, no. 37; Donald Towner, Creamware, London, 1978, p. 41, no. 9a

A similar slightly smaller example was sold in these Rooms January 26, 1994, The Herbert and Sylvia Jacobs Collection of 18th and Early 19th Century English Pottery, lot 127

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