A Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware enamelled coffee pot and cover

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A Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware enamelled coffee pot and cover
of tapering cylindrical form, with domed cover, and grooved strap handle, the body dipped in a brown glaze and painted in coloured enamels with roundels and vignettes of exotic birds and flowers, between ribbed sections, circa 1710 (the cover with two chips to footrim, one section missing, an associated crack, and a lesser chip, the base of the pot cracked, tiny chips to tip of spout and handle terminal) -- 20cm. high
See illustration and front cover

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Lot Essay

Cf. Bernard Rackham 'A Dated Staffordshire Mug in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff', E.C.C. Transactions Vol. 2, no. 8, pp. 145-148 for a discussion of this enamelling, where the author attributes the decoration on this armorial mug to an itinerant Dutch or German decorator working in Staffordshire; also see the mug sold at Christie's King Street on 18 June 1984, lot 38. For a discussion of this early form of coffee-pot see Hugh Tait, 'The Earliest English Ceramic Coffee-Pot', Ars Ceramica, No. 4, p. 50.

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