Lot 162
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A GREATBATCH CREAMWARE CYLINDRICAL TEAPOT AND COVER

Details
A GREATBATCH CREAMWARE CYLINDRICAL TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1775

With pierced ball finial, leaf-moulded spout and 'ear' handle, with printed and enamelled with The Prodigal Son Returns, the back with The Prodigal Son is Feasted on his Return, Jacobs Collection no. 297 (slight chip to spout and cover, base crashes)--5 3/8in. (13.7cm.) high
Provenance
M. Schorsch, Inc., Greenwich, Ct.; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., New York, June 13, 1979, lot 256
Literature
Barker, Greatbatch, plates 144 a & b, p. 231

Lot Essay

Cf. Towner, Creamware, pp. 23, 40, plate 36A and Crfeam Coloured Earthenware, plate 66A for teapots of similar shape also decorated with prints from William Greatbatch's Prodigal Son series.

The Biblical story of The Prodigal son inspires a series of prints by Greatbatch, posing the errant youth in contemporary (18th century) settings.