Various engine turned creamware items, circa 1770-80
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Various engine turned creamware items, circa 1770-80
Comprising four teapots without covers, possibly Swinton, each with complex and deeply carved engine turning (damaged), a similar Yorkshire miniature teapot and cover, 9cm, a small bell-shaped mug with turned horizontal bands, 9.5cm, and a teapot and cover, possibly Sewell, with engine-turned decoration and a pierced gallery, 14.5cm high (finial restuck) (9)
Sold for £937 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • The teapot attributed to Sewell is illustrated by Tom Walford, Early Creamware from North East England, Creamware and Pearlware Re-Examined (2005), p.91. Two of the other teapots are shown in the same publication, p.22, pl.12.

Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics

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