A STAFFORDSHIRE SOLID AGATE PECTIN SHELL TEAPOT AND COVER

CIRCA 1740

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SOLID AGATE PECTIN SHELL TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1740
Of typical shape with lion finial, scroll handle and beast moulded spout, marbled in brown, blue and ochre clays
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

with David Newbon, London
Purchased from Margo Antiques, St. Louis, Missouri, 1981 (as Wheildon-Wedgwood)

Literature

Patricia E. Kane, "Living with Antiques: A Saint Louis couple collects," The Magazine Antiques (May 2002), p. 120, pl. XI.

Lot Essay

For a similar example, see the Collection of the late Robert J. Kahn, Christie's, New York, 18 and 19 January 2002, lot 478; also Phillip Miller and Michael Berthoud, An Anthology of British Teapots, Kent, 1985, p. 15, pl. 88 for a teapot of similar form.

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