Lot Essay
Cf. A.E. (Jimmy) Jones & Sir Lesley Joseph, Swansea Porcelain Shapes and Decoration (1988), p. 74, pl. 2 for a teapot of similar form.
Details
A Swansea shaped rectangular teapot, cover and stand
with loop handle, painted in brown with loose sprays of flowers reserved on a slightly waisted gadroon-moulded band and beneath basket-weave moulded panel, brown-line rims, circa 1815, the teapot 26cm. wide
with loop handle, painted in brown with loose sprays of flowers reserved on a slightly waisted gadroon-moulded band and beneath basket-weave moulded panel, brown-line rims, circa 1815, the teapot 26cm. wide
Provenance
Harry Sherman Collection, no. 34.
Special notice
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