Lot Essay
Cf. Frank Tilley, Teapots and Tea, Newport, 1957, colour pl. B, for the example in the Metropolitain Museum of Art with a different cover and attached stand
Details
A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1785
Of Ralph Wood type, modelled as a brown elephant surmounted by a monkey seated in a green cremellated howdah, the handle formed as scrolling serpents (cracked, restoration to its tail, trunk, howdah and cover) --11in. (28cm.) high
CIRCA 1785
Of Ralph Wood type, modelled as a brown elephant surmounted by a monkey seated in a green cremellated howdah, the handle formed as scrolling serpents (cracked, restoration to its tail, trunk, howdah and cover) --11in. (28cm.) high
Provenance
C.T. Fowler Collection, Sale Sotheby's London, October 24, 1961, Lot 111 (to Tilley & Co. on behalf of Kenneth Chorley)
Literature
Griselda Lewis, English Pottery, London, 1956, fig. 135
John P. Cushion, Animals in Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1974, fig. 76
Antiques Magazine, February 1965
John P. Cushion, Animals in Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1974, fig. 76
Antiques Magazine, February 1965