Lot 288
A Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware 'King of Prussia' teapot and cover
circa 1760
28 April 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £600 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware 'King of Prussia' teapot and cover
circa 1760
The globular form with crabstock handle and spout, brightly painted with the titled bust portrait in profile of Fred.Prussia Rex to sinister, the reverse with a crowned eagle inscribed Semper Sublimis, both panels on a turquoise ground within scroll cartouches reserved against an ermine ground, the ermine extending under the base and across the cover, with branch finial, 9.3cm high (some restoration) (2)
The globular form with crabstock handle and spout, brightly painted with the titled bust portrait in profile of Fred.Prussia Rex to sinister, the reverse with a crowned eagle inscribed Semper Sublimis, both panels on a turquoise ground within scroll cartouches reserved against an ermine ground, the ermine extending under the base and across the cover, with branch finial, 9.3cm high (some restoration) (2)
Footnotes
A very similar example, from the Shand Kydd Collection, was sold at Sotheby's, 25 November 1997, lot 224