Lot 125
125
A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE HEXAGONAL TEAPOT AND COVER

Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE HEXAGONAL TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1765

With winged griffin finial, double c-scroll handle and reeded foliate spout, moulded with Chinese figures in rectangular panels and splashed in blue, green, ochre and brown, Jacobs Collection no. 477 (minute chip to neck, cover cracked across and several places restored)--6½in. (16.5cm.) high
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby's West Sussex, November 17, 1982, lot 658

Lot Essay

Cf. Emmerson, Twining, pp. 62 and 65, no. 41, and cover for a nearly identical example.

The attribution of this type of teapot to a particular factory is difficult. For a discussion on this see Grigsby, Weldon Collection , 95a and b, no. 454 and 61; and Barker, Greatbatch, p. 261