Lot Essay
Cf. Towner, Creamware, p. 50 for a discussion of the black and red enamelling by Rhodes and specific reference to the present scent.
Details
A WEDGWOOD CREAMWARE GLOBULAR TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1764, IMPRESSED POTTER'S MARK C, PROBABLY DECORATED BY DAVID RHODES
With ball finial, scrolling foliate handle, and cabbage leaf-moulded spout, painted in iron-red and black with a man sitting by a well playing a horn to his dog, a town in the background, the reverse with a turreted house, Jacobs Collection no. 617 (spout restuck and restored, cracks around base of spout, slight crack to shoulder)--5½in. (14cm.) high
CIRCA 1764, IMPRESSED POTTER'S MARK C, PROBABLY DECORATED BY DAVID RHODES
With ball finial, scrolling foliate handle, and cabbage leaf-moulded spout, painted in iron-red and black with a man sitting by a well playing a horn to his dog, a town in the background, the reverse with a turreted house, Jacobs Collection no. 617 (spout restuck and restored, cracks around base of spout, slight crack to shoulder)--5½in. (14cm.) high
Provenance
Mrs. Byron A. Born
Literature
Reilly, Wedgwood, Vol. I, part I, pl. C-30
Towner, Creamware, p. 53, no. 15B
Towner, Creamware, p. 53, no. 15B