Lot Essay
Cf. Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1935, no. 596, p. 42, fig. E, for a similar teapot
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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE QUATREFOIL TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1755
With branch finial and loop handle, moulded with overlapping shells and trailing oak branches and enamelled in colours with flowering branches centering a bird beneath a border of key-pattern and moulded foliage (two minute rim cracks)--5¼in. (13.5cm.) high
CIRCA 1755
With branch finial and loop handle, moulded with overlapping shells and trailing oak branches and enamelled in colours with flowering branches centering a bird beneath a border of key-pattern and moulded foliage (two minute rim cracks)--5¼in. (13.5cm.) high