A Whieldon type creamware teapot and cover c.1760

A Whieldon type creamware teapot and cover c.1760, applied with sprays of fruiting grapevine on a mottled manganese ground, with crabstock spout and handle, and a Cockpit Hill (Derby) small creamware teapot and cover, the spout moulded with leaves,

18.5cm max. (4)

Provenance: The C E Hanley Collection. The Whieldon teapot purchased from Charles Garland, 28th September 1992. Previously in the Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection, and the D L Jones Collection. The Cockpit Hill teapot purchased from Phillips, 14th September 1994. Previously in the Norman Stretton Collection.

Illustrated: Henry Sandon, Coffee Pots and Teapots for the Collector, p.51, col. pl.60 (the Whieldon), and Donald Towner, ECC Transactions, Vol. 6, Part 3, pl.165b, and Norman Stretton, Antique Collecting magazine, May 1977, fig 1 (the Cockpit Hill).

Exhibited: The Wedgwood Society of Boston Exhibition, Boston Public Library, 1973 (the Whieldon).