CIRCA 1887, INDISTINCT REGISTRY DIAMOND

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A SAMUEL LEAR MAJOLICA TEAPOT AND COVER
Circa 1887, indistinct registry diamond
Moulded with the 'sunflower and classic urn' pattern; together with an English majolica yellow-ground Japonisme teapot and cover moulded with a bird, a Japanese fan, prunus and mons; a Holdcroft majolica basket moulded with bands of flowering prunus; and an English majolica brown-ground plate, the center moulded as a large sunflower
8in. (20.3cm.) wide (4)

Special notice

This lot has no reserve.

Lot Essay

Cf. Victoria Bergesen, Majolica, British, Continental and American Wares, 1851-1915, London, 1989, p. 151, fig. 72 for the Lear teapot; also see Marilyn G. Karmason and Joan Stacke, Majolica A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, New York, 1989, p. 113 for a Samuel Lear advertisement for this form in The Pottery Gazette

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