Lot Essay
Cf. the example from the Jacobs Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 24 January 1994, lot 142.
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A Wedgwood creamware chintz-pattern globular teapot and cover
CIRCA 1770, INCISED X TO BASE
Details
A Wedgwood creamware chintz-pattern globular teapot and cover
Circa 1770, incised X to base
Painted in the workshop of David Rhodes with pink foliage-moulded spout, scroll handle and pierced ball finial, the body and cover decorated with an allover pattern of overlapping puce flowerheads, iron-red, black, grey-green and yellow cell-pattern and line bands divided by iron-red flowers with black foliage (minute chip and associated crack to spout)
5¼in. (13.5cm.) high
Circa 1770, incised X to base
Painted in the workshop of David Rhodes with pink foliage-moulded spout, scroll handle and pierced ball finial, the body and cover decorated with an allover pattern of overlapping puce flowerheads, iron-red, black, grey-green and yellow cell-pattern and line bands divided by iron-red flowers with black foliage (minute chip and associated crack to spout)
5¼in. (13.5cm.) high