White Salt-glazed Stoneware King of Prussia Teapot and Cover

Description:

White Salt-glazed Stoneware King of PrussiaTeapot and Cover, England, c. 1756-63, probably Staffordshire, globular shape with molded crabstock handle and spout, black ermine ground with polychrome enameled central reserves, one side with titled portrait depiction of "Fred III Prufsiae Rex," the reverse with Prussian eagle bearing a ribbon inscribed "Semper Sublimis," ht. 4 1/4 in.

Provenance: From the Troy Chappell Collection; Jonathan Horne.

Literature: Identical illustrated in British Teapots & Tea Drinking, by Emmerson, illus. 14.
Estimate $3,000-5,000

Professional restored to cover rim; pot with sizable restorations throughout.


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