A creamware teapot and cover
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A Wedgwood creamware teapot and cover, circa 1775
Globular with a scrolled handle and a leaf-moulded spout picked out in puce, painted in colours probably in the Rhodes workshop with a couple embracing before a group of buildings, a bird in flight above them, the reverse with a seated lady holding a fishing rod, inscribed 'CH' above the spout, 14cm high (restored) (2)
Sold for £1,625 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Tom Walford discussed the decoration on this teapot in a lecture. "The gentleman is clutching the servant maid perhaps rather too closely while on the other side of the pot there is seated an elegant lady in a large hat, apparently fishing, perhaps because her husband is paying too much attention to the maid...or is she holding a long whip with which to bring him to heel? Whatever the story, it makes interesting decoration".

Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics

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