Lot 50
50
A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE LOBED TEAPOT AND COVER

Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE LOBED TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1765, PROBABLY WHIELDON OR WEDGWOOD

With recumbent lamb finial, foliate and beaded spout and foliage scroll handle and moulded with a puce and turquoise house, yellow sheep, brown cows and green trees on both sides between moulded shaped panels of diaper and bands of beading, the handle, spout and cover also enriched with green, puce and yellow, Jacobs Collection no. 470--4¾in. (11.9cm.) high
Provenance
Philip Suval, New York
The Garbisch Collection, Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., 'Pokety Farms', Cambridge Maryland, May 22 & 23, 1980, lot 28
Exhibited
Design in the Service of Tea

Lot Essay

Cf. Mountford, Illustrated Guide, pl. 210; and Reilly, Wedgwood, Vol. I, nos. 152 & 153 for white and polychrome examples with identical handles and spouts in the Collection of Mrs. R.D. Chellis, shards of which have been found at Fenton Vivian; and no. 150 for the block mould in the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston traditionally ascribed to William Greatbatch.