MORNING SESSION Saturday 19 January 2002 at 10:00 am ENGLISH POTTERY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE ROBERT J. KAHN (Lots 465-633)

A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE LOBED 'LANDSKIP' TEAPOT AND COVER

CIRCA 1765, PROBABLY WHIELDON OR WEDGWOOD

Details

A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE LOBED 'LANDSKIP' TEAPOT AND COVER
Circa 1765, probably Whieldon or Wedgwood
With recumbent lamb finial, foliate and beaded spout and foliage scroll handle, moulded with a puce and turquoise house, yellow sheep, brown cows and green trees on both sides between moulded shaped panels of diaper and bands of beading, the handle, spout and cover also enriched with green, puce and yellow
4¾in. (12.1cm.) high

Provenance

With Philip Suval, New York
The Garbisch Collection; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., 'Pokety Farms', Cambridge, Maryland, 22 & 23 May 1980, lot 28
The Herbert and Sylvia Jacobs Collection, no. 470; Christie's, New York, 24 January 1994, lot 50

Exhibited

New York Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Design in the Service of Tea, 7 August - 28 October, 1984

Lot Essay

See Arnold R. Mountford, Illustrated Guide, pl. 210; and Robin Reilly, Wedgwood, Vol. I, nos.152 & 153 for white and polychrome examples with identical handles and spouts in the Collection of Mrs. R.D. Chellis, shards of which have been found at Fenton Vivian and no. 150 for the block mould in the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston previously ascribed to William Greatbatch.

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