Lot Essay
Cf. Towner, Creamware, London, 1978, fig. 79B for a similar punch-kettle with identical decoration
Details
A LEEDS CREAMWARE PUNCH-KETTLE AND COVER
CIRCA 1780
With pierced finial, fluted scroll spout and entwined twisted rope handle terminating in flowers and leaves and printed in black with 'Harlequin and Columbine Discovered in an Arbour' and 'May Day,' Jacobs Collection no. 425 (spout fitted with silvered metal tip, some slight staining, minute frits to rim of cover)--7in. (18cm.) high
CIRCA 1780
With pierced finial, fluted scroll spout and entwined twisted rope handle terminating in flowers and leaves and printed in black with 'Harlequin and Columbine Discovered in an Arbour' and 'May Day,' Jacobs Collection no. 425 (spout fitted with silvered metal tip, some slight staining, minute frits to rim of cover)--7in. (18cm.) high