VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A Staffordshire saltglaze small globular teapot and cover

CIRCA 1750

细节
A Staffordshire saltglaze small globular teapot and cover
Circa 1750
With three lion-mask and paw feet, branch-moulded loop handle and branch spout with white metal tip, sprigged with stylised geometrical foliate flowerhead and anthemion motifs within scroll borders, the slightly domed sprigged cover with a bird finial (the metal tip to spout possibly a later replacement, three small hairline cracks to inner flange of cover)
4½in. (11.5cm.) wide