A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE RECTANGULAR TEA CANNISTER AND COVER

DATED 1779

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A STAFFORDSHIRE CREAMWARE RECTANGULAR TEA CANNISTER AND COVER
Dated 1779
The flat cover inscribed and dated in scratch brown 'A.H. 1779' above a waisted neck, the sides moulded with Apollo and flowering branches, decorated allover with green, brown and ochre
5 3/8in. (13.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

Two other cannistyers of similar form, dated 1779 and with scratch brown intitials are recorded. One, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (C.109-1938) is initialled 'EM'. Another, in the Henry H. Weldon Collection, is initialled 'IE'. Cf. Leslie B. Grigsby, English Pottery: Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800, the Henry H. Weldon Collection, London, 1990, no. 102

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