White Salt-glazed Stoneware Polychrome Enamel-decorated Teapot and Cover

Description:

White Salt-glazed Stoneware Polychrome Enamel-decorated Teapot and Cover, England, c. 1755-65, probably Yorkshire or possibly Staffordshire, globular shape with crabstock handle and spout, each side with a landscape, one with a maiden, the reverse with a gentleman playing a horn, the cover with a man holding a fishing pole, ht. 3 3/4, lg. 6 1/8 in.

Provenance: Price Glover.

Literature: Similar illustrated in Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware, by Mountford, illus. 194-A.
Estimate $700-900

Cover: Old and discoloired repairs to rim chip and finial.
Pot: Old and discolored repair to tip of spout; interior collar with numerous small edge chips; 1" rim hairline.


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