John Sandon
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An important Lund's Bristol teapot and a cover, circa 1748-50
13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£6,000 - £8,000
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An important Lund's Bristol teapot and a cover, circa 1748-50
Of hexagonal shape and small size, moulded with six plain sides and a hexagonal neck and footrim, the plain loop handle and curved spout both round in section, painted in blue with a peony plant beside a willow tree, the same design repeated on the reverse and a small peony sprig beneath the spout, a feather-and-flame motif painted on the handle and on both sides of the spout, dark 'comma' motifs painted on the body on either side of the terminals, the non-matching cover also hexagonal painted with a Chinese riverscape including floating rocks, about 9.5cm high, a tiny blue stroke or numeral 1 mark on both the cover and the base (chipped) (2)
Footnotes
One other identical teapot with its matching cover is well known, having been in the Geoffrey Godden, Billie Pain and Colin Hanley collections. This had been published variously as Chaffers or as Limehouse but is now considered to be from the Lund's Bristol factory. The paste and glaze has a more vitrified appearance compared with most Limehouse and this may be due to the use of soaprock at Bristol. Finds of a biscuit cover and rim section on the Limehouse site show that small hexagonal teapots originated there. A number of decorated wasters from larger octagonal teapots show that the pattern on the present lot was also made at Limehouse. The cover on the present lot is more typical of Lund's Bristol in appearance and is remarkably similar to the cover on another small hexagonal teapot that has been attributed to Lund's Bristol, painted with a Chinese landscape that matches a class of experimental teapots that it has been suggested were made at Worcester pre-Warmstry House. There was clearly much overlap in terms of shape and decoration between these exciting groups of early English porcelains.