A GREEN-GLAZED CREAMWARE INSCRIBED CYLINDRICAL TEAPOT AND COVER with fluted curved spout and entwined handle and with all over rouletted decoration, inscribed in gilt Eliz. Quilter Kirby Essex within a gilt scroll and foliage cartouche, the reverse indistinctly inscribed with a sentiment beginning Hear's Ruination..., the cover with flower finial (slight chips to spout, finial repaired), perhaps Leeds, circa 1775
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A GREEN-GLAZED CREAMWARE INSCRIBED CYLINDRICAL TEAPOT AND COVER with fluted curved spout and entwined handle and with all over rouletted decoration, inscribed in gilt Eliz. Quilter Kirby Essex within a gilt scroll and foliage cartouche, the reverse indistinctly inscribed with a sentiment beginning Hear's Ruination..., the cover with flower finial (slight chips to spout, finial repaired), perhaps Leeds, circa 1775
17cm. high
Lot Essay
For an oviform punch-pot decorated in a similar manner see Robin Reilly, op. cit., vol. I, col. pl. C11