A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE PINEAPPLE TEAPOT AND COVER

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A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE PINEAPPLE TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1765, PROBABLY WEDGWOOD,

With folded leaf knop, cabbage spout and scroll handle, naturalistically modelled and coloured, Jacobs Collection no. 244 (restoration to tip of spout and finial)--5¼in. (13.3cm.) high

Provenance

Rt. Hon. Malcom MacDonald, Sotheby's London, March 14, 1978, lot 186

Lot Essay

Cf. Grigsby, Weldon Collection, pl. 91, nos. 354 and 380 for other pineapple pieces and shards from The Greatbatch Fenton sight and from Whieldon's Fenton Vivian sight; and Reilly, Wedgwood, Vol. I, p. 158, no. 108