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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE GLOBULAR TEAPOT, CIRCA 1760, with crabstock spout and handle and painted in puce, green, yellow and manganese with a figure in a landscape beside a fort in a harbor; the reverse with a crenellated tower beside a ship tied to the bank and another at sail --3¾in. high

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE GLOBULAR TEAPOT, CIRCA 1760, with crabstock spout and handle and painted in puce, green, yellow and manganese with a figure in a landscape beside a fort in a harbor; the reverse with a crenellated tower beside a ship tied to the bank and another at sail --3¾in. high

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Cf. Wolf Mankowitz and Reginald G. Haggar, The Concise Encylopedia of English Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1968, colour pl. 17 for a punch pot with decoration in a similar palette; and Donald Towner, Creamware, London, 1978, pl. 12A where it is suggested that this type of decoration might be by John and Anne Warburton of Cobridge

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