Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Lot 16
An English delftware teapot and cover, circa 1750
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Jim Peake
Head of Department
Fergus Gambon
Director
An English delftware teapot and cover, circa 1750
Of compressed globular form, applied with a short spout and high loop handle, the low cover with a pointed finial, painted in blue in oriental style with trailing flowers within diaper borders, cloud-like scrolls running neatly down the handle, 10cm high, 17cm long, numeral '2' marks to the interior base and inside the cover (2)
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Provenance
With Jonathan Horne
Bonhams, 1 December 2010, lot 10
Literature
White, Mary, Drinking at the Whites' House, Vol.2, 2021, p.263, fig.b
Teawares are scarce in English delftware and teapots survive in very small numbers indeed, their inability to stand up to heat-shock contributing greatly to this statistic. A teapot painted with Chinese huts on an island was in the Louis Lipski Collection, sold by Sotheby's on 10 March 1981, lot 115. Lipski included his teapot in the Tea Centre's 'Teaware in English Delft' exhibition catalogue, 1954, no.38, where it is one of only seven teapots included, none of which match the description of the present lot.