A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZED STONEWARE SQUIRREL TEAPOT AND COVER AND A GOAT CREAM-JUG
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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZED STONEWARE SQUIRREL TEAPOT AND COVER AND A GOAT CREAM-JUG

CIRCA 1745-1750

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A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZED STONEWARE SQUIRREL TEAPOT AND COVER AND A GOAT CREAM-JUG
CIRCA 1745-1750
The first modeled as a seated squirrel holding a nut, the body slip-cast with birds perched among scrolling branches; the second with a reeded strap handle, the lower body with two goats recumbent beneath flowering branches
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, the squirrel (3)
Provenance
With Henry V. Weil, New York, 21 September 1936 (the squirrel).
With Guitel Montague, New York, 21 September 1936 (the cream-jug).
W.B. Goodwin, collection nos. 92 and 88.
Exhibited
Portland Museum of Art, loan nos. 2.1983.20 and .28.
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Lot Essay

A letter to Josiah Wedgwood from William Greatbatch dated May 1764 refers to a 'Squirrel and Bird tpt Block' and asks whether his client would like 'ground work upon it or not'. For a similar example, see Leslie B. Grigsby, The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware, 1650-1800, London, 1990, p. 72, no. 10. Also compare, Property from the Estate of Brooke Astor, Sotheby's, New York, 24-25 September 2012, lot 247.

For a goat and 'no-bee' jug and a discussion of the form at Chelsea, see Peter William and Pat Halfpenny, A Passion for Pottery, Further Selections from the Henry H. Weldon Collection, New York, 2000, p. 74 and 75, no. 32.

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