18 Dec 2012
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The Tom Walford Collection of British Pottery
Back to auction 20953
The Tom Walford Collection of British Pottery
Back to auction 20953
Three creamware teapots and covers, circa 1765-70
Comprising a globular teapot and cover from the first phase of production at Cockpit Hill, with a faceted spout and a pierced mushroom finial, outlined in black and coloured in red with a bowl of fruit including cherries, the reverse with a flower spray, 11.7cm high, a smaller teapot and cover with a moulded spout, painted with flowers in green and red, 11cm high, and a William Greatbatch globular teapot and cover with a ribbed crossover handle, naively painted with flower sprays, 12.7cm high (some damage and restoration) (6)
Sold for
£875
inc. premium
Footnotes
- The Cockpit Hill teapot is illustrated by Tom Walford, Cockpit Hill-evidence from shards, Creamware and Pearlware Re-Examined (2007), p 188, figs 16 and 17. The central flower in the spray on the reverse matches a shard from the factory site shown at p.189, fig.18. For a related Greatbatch teapot, see David Barker, William Greatbatch (1991), p 207, pl 93.
Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics
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