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Teapot

Dateca. 1745

Attributed to Enoch Booth

OriginEngland, Staffordshire, Tunstall

MediumLead-glazed earthenware (creamware / cream-colored earthenware and agateware)

DimensionsOH: 5 1/8"; OW: 7 1/2"; Diam: 4 3/4"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1975-178,A&B

DescriptionTeapot: three mask feet support the squat ovoid body that rises to a short collar toped by a slightly-domed cover with an onion bulb-shaped knop. The contact points glazed. Slightly tapered hexagonally faceted S-shaped spout opposite a rounded ear-shaped handle with a kick at the lower terminal. Decorated under the glaze: blue-tinged celadon colored glaze over buff body; the cover with slightly green-er glaze. The handle, spout, and feet of agate ware. The body and cover with elaborate painted decoration: the cover with four cartouches each containing a flower; between, patterns of cross-hatching. The top of the shoulder with a band of alternating panels of cross-hatching and reserved cartouches with flowers. The body painted in brown outlines with a continual scene of a woman leaning backward and surrounded by blue and green birds in a gardenscape. The garden wraps around the spout and handle to the opposite side, where a man in blue robes walks to the left, surrounded by trees with trailing foliage and large blue and green birds. To the underside, a scene of stylized rocks painted in blue over a green foreground with brown trees to the background.
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ProvenanceEx Coll: Gollancz
with Sotheby's London, IMPORTANT ENGLISH POTTERY, 19 July 1975, lot 188
with Jellinek and Sampson

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