Four creamware teapots and covers, two dated 1760 and 1769
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Four creamware teapots and covers, two dated 1760 and 1769
With cold gilded inscriptions, comprising a cylindrical example, probably North Eastern, inscribed 'Anne Boucant Page', 16.5cm high, another with a pierced gallery, inscribed 'Marmaduke...', 16.3cm, a globular example inscribed 'Susannah Drewry Weary Hall 1769', 11.2cm, and another inscribed 'Mary Horod Boulge' and dated '1760' to the reverse, 14.6cm (all with gilding worn, some damage) (8)
Sold for £687 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • The first teapot is illustrated by Tom Walford, Early Creamware from North East England, Creamware and Pearlware Re-Visited (2005), p.110, fig.51. The Susannah Drewry teapot, from the Donald Towner Collection, was shown in the ECC Exhibition 'Shipwrecks and Marriages', 2009

Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics

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