A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE ELEPHANT TEAPOT AND COVER
A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE ELEPHANT TEAPOT AND COVER

CIRCA 1785, PROBABLY MODELLED BY THE WOOD FAMILY

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A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE ELEPHANT TEAPOT AND COVER
Circa 1785, probably modelled by the Wood family
As an elephant with trunk raised, the cover formed as a monkey seated in a crenellated howdah, the handle as two entwined serpents, shaded in blue and green, on a rectangular base similiarly coloured
10in. (25.4cm.) high
Provenance
The Christener Collection; Christie's, New York, 30 November - 1 December 1979, lot 24

Lot Essay

See Frank Tilley, Teapots and Tea, Newport, 1957, colour pl. B for the example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Collection of Jean and Kenneth Chorley, Christie's, New York 25 January 1993, lot 69 for a free-standing example; and Griselda Lewis, English Pottery, London, 1956, fig. 135; and John P. Cushion, Animals in Pottery and Porcelain, New York 1974, fig. 76

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