CIRCA 1745

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZED STONEWARE 'JACOBITE' TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1745
Of hexagonal pear-shape with vine handle and bird's head spout, the lion finial flanked by sprigged squirrels juggling three nuts, the central panel slip-cast with a warrior holding a shield and wielding a sword beside a rampant lion, the obverse with Bacchanalian figures among grapevine by a wine barrel, one lying beneath the open spigot drinking from a funnel, two of the smaller corner panels cast with a crowned figure holding a scepter above a lion, a fifth with a lion beneath a foliate scroll and the sixth with an armorial device of a crown flanked by birds above vertical laurel bands
4 7/8 in. (12.2 cm.) high (2)

来源

W.B. Goodwin, collection no. 81.

展览

Portland Museum of Art, loan no. 2.1983.23.

注意事项

This lot is offered without reserve.

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拍品专文

After an exhaustive search, this rare teapot form and the corresponding block mold appear to be unrecorded. Of Jacobite interest, the heraldic subject is likely the King and Crusader Richard the Lionheart. For a saltglazed stoneware teapot circa 1740 with the same sprigged decoration of a squirrel juggling three nuts, see the online galleries of The Victoria & Albert Museum, no. C.46&A-1949; and for a similar squirrel on a wine cup of circa 1745, see Leslie B. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware, 1650-1800, London, 1990, p. 85, no. 19.