A rare and interesting Derbyshire porcelain teapot c.1760-70

A rare and interesting Derbyshire porcelain teapot c.1760-70, perhaps Wirksworth, finely painted with puce lotus-shaped panels in the manner of the Queen's pattern, containing green monochrome flower sprays, the cover lacking, 17.2cm across.

Paper label for the Geoffrey Godden Reference Collection, noting its acquisition from Mercury Antiques.

Cf. Gaye Blake Roberts, Wirksworth - The Elusive Factory in The Journal of the Derby Porcelain International Society, No. 6 (2009), fig. 5 for a similarly decorated teabowl and saucer.