A rare Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware teapot and cover c.1750-55

A rare Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware teapot and cover c.1750-55, brightly enamelled each side with a jagged panel containing a putto reaching down through the clouds to a bird perched on sprays of flowering prunus and chrysanthemum, reserved on a turquoise ground, minor faults, 20cm across. (2)

Provenance: the C E Hanley Collection. Purchased from Sotheby's, The Shand Kydd Collection, 25th November 1997, lot 216. Previously in the collection of Frances L. Dickson.

Illustrated: Frank Tilley, Teapots and Tea, p.20, col. pl.A.