A LIVERPOOL TEAPOT AND COVER

CIRCA 1780, PROBABLY SETH PENNINGTON'S FACTORY

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A LIVERPOOL TEAPOT AND COVER
Circa 1780, probably Seth Pennington's factory
Of inverted pear shape with domed cover and knop finial, painted with vignettes of Chinese immortals and with Kakiemon flowers within palm-leaf moulded arches, the cover rim and shoulder with foliate scrolls, the lower portion moulded and enriched in turquoise and puce with stiff leaf tips
6¾in. (17.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

For another similar example, see Teapots from the Collection of the Late Guy Mankin; Christie's East, New York, 26 January 2000, lot 70; also Robin Emmerson, British Teapots and Tea Drinking, London, 1992, pl. 67, fig. 202.

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