A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE SMALL CAULIFLOWER TEAPOT AND COVER

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A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE SMALL CAULIFLOWER TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1763

Naturalistically moulded and coloured as a cauliflower with green foliate scroll handle (chips to tip of spout and inside rim)--4in. (10.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Reilly, Wedgwood, Vol. I, p. 159, no. 112 for very similar moulding, but a different foot; Reilly and Halfpenny, Unearthing Staffordshire, p. 56, no. 37 for an unidentfied teapot with the same handle; Emmerson, Twinnings, pl. 7 no. 49 and The Herbert and Sylvia Jacobs Collection, Christie's New York, January 24, 1994, Lot 112 for almost identical examples.