Lot 82
82
A STAFFORDSHIRE LEAD-GLAZED REDWARE HEXAGONAL TEAPOT AND COVER

Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE LEAD-GLAZED REDWARE HEXAGONAL TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1740, PROBABLY NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME

Moulded with oval panels of Chinese pavilions, Jacobs Collection no. 482 (extensively damaged and repaired) --4¼in. (10.8cm.) high
Provenance
Anon. sale, Phillips New York, March 30, 1983, lot 20

Lot Essay

Cf. Barker and Halfpenny, Unearthing Staffordshire, pp. 23-30 for a discussion on this type of ware and its probable manufacturers; Grigsby, Weldon Collection, p. 257, no. 144a & b; and Rackham and Read, English Pottery, fig. 175 for a very similar but larger piece in the Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham