teapot

Summary

Public: Globular teapot with crabstock spout and handle. White salt-glazed stoneware, painted in overglaze enamels with floral sprays reserved against a red-brown ground. Private: Globular teapot on circular foot, with crabstock handle and spout. Body painted in brown, pink, red, green, yellow and blue overglaze enamels with overall red-brown ground, reserving two scrollwork cartouches outlined in yellow and blue, one on either side. Each cartouche contains floral spray in pink, red and green, small single blue and yellow flower above spout. Handle, spout and underside painted plain red-brown. Black specks to glaze. Cover missing, currently replaced with gilt porcelain cover. Believed by Mr Jonathan Horne of Sampson & Horne Antiques to be a very rare colour.