A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE ERMINE-GROUND SMALL GLOBULAR TEAPOT AND COVER

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE ERMINE-GROUND SMALL GLOBULAR TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1760

With pierced ball finial and crabstock handle and spout, enamelled in colours with a bust-length portrait of Frederick the Great crowned in laurel, within a shaped cartouche, a named banner, above, the reverse with the double-headed eagle holding a banner inscribed Semper Sublimas, a wreath and a sceptre in a cartouche reserved on the ermine ground, Jacobs Collection no. 424 (handle repaired)--3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) high

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Taggart, Burnap Collection fig. 242 for an almost identical example of this unusual small size; Henry Sandon, Coffee-pots and Teapots, pl. 40 for the small example in the Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collelction; and Hobson, British Museum, no. G85 for the example formerly in the Franks Collection