Fine Porcelain and Pottery - 23rd February 2016

Lot 51

A creamware coffee pot and cover c.1760-70

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £450

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Description

A creamware coffee pot and cover c.1760-70, painted in polychrome enamels, to one side a gentleman in a frock coat standing with a church in the background, the reverse with a ruined obelisk, the spout elaborately moulded, a little restoration to the end of the spout, 23.5cm. (2)

Paper labels for the Tom Walford Collection.

Exhibited: The NCS Creamware and Pearlware Exhibition, 1986, p.70, fig.29.

Illustrated: The Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, Volume 24, 2013, Pat Halfpenny and Peter Williams, Creamware and Early Enamel Painting in Staffordshire, figs. 19A and 19B.