CIRCA 1752-55

Very few Chelsea teapots of this form are recorded. An example from the Hanley collection, painted with cattle and figures in landscape, perhaps by Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale, was sold at Sotheby's in London on 15 May 2014, lot 130. Another example, almost identical to the present lot, painted with bouquets of flowers, was sold from the Shand Kydd collection at Sotheby's in London on 4 June 1996, lot 246, and was previously in the Hon. Alexander Carnegie collection, sold at Christie's in London on 3 July 1967, lot 182.