A PAIR OF STAFFORDSHIRE SMEAR-GLAZED STONEWARE OBELISKS

CIRCA 1800, POSSIBLY WARBURTON

Details

A PAIR OF STAFFORDSHIRE SMEAR-GLAZED STONEWARE OBELISKS
Circa 1800, possibly Warburton
Each obelisk painted with fruit within blue lines, each side of the square base with a moulded oval medallion edged in pink, three with applied relief mythological scenes and one painted in colours with a riverside pastoral landscape
8 5/8 in. (21.8 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Purchased from Arthur S. Vernay, New York, October 1927

Lot Essay

For a very similar pair see The Alice Tully Collection, Christie's New York, 26 October 1994, lot 362; also see Robin Emmerson British Teapots & Tea Drinking, London, 1992, p. 178-182, pl. 86 & 87, fig. 264 and 267 for two teapots with similar mythological altar reliefs; and Hugo Morley-Fletcher and Roger McIlroy, Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery, London, 1984, pp. 300-301, no. 18 for a similar three-piece garniture.

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