Salt-glazed Stoneware Camel Teapot & Cover, c1745-1750, crisply moulded seated with a howdah on its back, with portraits in profile with a flower in the sides, the long neck and head forming the spout, the body with scrolling vine decoration, applied paper labels, 5 1/4.” Restored cover and crack to one side of howdah.
RPW00621 $4,600
Provenance
The Harry A. Root Jr. Collection of 18th Century English Pottery, Skinner, Inc., Boston, July 13, 2013, lot 1168.
The Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin & Suzanne Borow Rubin.
Literature
A Collector's History of English Pottery, Griselda Lewis, pg 75, top image for a similar teapot in the Collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
An English Pottery Heritage, The Troy Dawson Chappell Collection of Earthenware & Stoneware 1630-1800. Part 2. Pg, 572/573. “On 24 August 1747, the London Daily Advertiser recorded “curious Tea-Pots of all sizes” that might have included an exotic format such this animal.2 Zoomorphic teapots apparently remained novelties because their defining contours precluded steady pouring as inherent with standard globular types.3.
Footnote - 2 Hildyard, English Pottery 1620-1840, p. 43, for quote and notice. Contemporary use of ‘curious’ meant ‘rare.’ Vide, p. 565, for a mansion-shape teapot.
3 Tilley, Teapots and Tea, p. 22, for observation.
Similar teapots
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Helen and Carleton Macy Collection, Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934, Accession Number: 34.165.183a, b.
Winterthur, 1958.0903 Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont (http://libraryrevealed.winterthur.org/meaning-revealed/case-study-teapot/).
The Fitzwilliam Museum. (https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75552).
The V & A. The Lady Charlotte Schreiber Collection. They note that Lady Charlotte wrote in her 1882 journal that she bought a 'fine Camel teapot' off the dealer De Vries. She notes, 'I carried off a fine Camel teapot of salt glaze which was too good to leave behind, and which I told him I would consider a present, though of course I shall send him back a money equivalent.' This could refer to this teapot or Sch.II.113&A.
Salt-glazed Stoneware House Teapot & cover, c.1745-1750, moulded in the form of a three storey Georgian house on one side, two story on the other, with a swan neck spout and molded strap handle with a figure and floral motif either side of the base, a rectangular moulded cover, 5” Professional restoration to small rim chip, top of spout and a small chip to corner of roof.
RPW00622 $2,200
Provenance
The Collection of Dr. Ellis F. Rubin & Suzanne Borow Rubin.
Literature
White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles, Diana Edward and Rodney Hampson, Pg. 40. Fig. 29. And Pg. 85, Colour plate. 55. For a similar plaster master mould of the body.
An English Pottery Heritage, The Troy Dawson Chappell Collection of Earthenware & Stoneware 1630-1800. Part 2. No. 244. Pg, 564/565.
For a similar teapot see - Metropolitan Museum, accession number - 34.165.46a, b. Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/197518
Rare Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware Model of a Lion, 1750, modelled seated wearing a collar and chain on a rectangular base, one paw raised, the eyes and tongue in a brown slip, 6 1/4”. Firing cracks to body and a hairline, museum repair to back of base.
RPW00580 $3,200
Provenance
The Rous Lench Collection, English Pottery and Porcelain, Sotheby’s, London, July 1st, 1986, lot.119.
Wynn A. Sayman Antiques, Richmond, Massachusetts.
Staffordshire Blue Ground Salt-Glazed Stoneware Study Collection Teapot, 1760, painted with a large rose in shades of pink with green foliage and buds, 4 1/4” high. Old restoration.
RPW00570 $260
Staffordshire Salt Glazed Stoneware Urn/Jardiniere, 1750/70, urn shaped bowl applied with three male masks, raised on a triple stepped base, 7 1/2”. Minor signs of age.
RPW00555 $2,900
See - For a similar shape - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1923-0122-97-CR
Whilst a number of similar shaped vases or flower pots can be found in various materials of the late 18th century, there are few with applications of human masks and I have yet to find any with three human face masks.
The use of human face masks, busts, small figures and masks applied to the legs of vessels, again seems to be very limited and confined to a short period of time but again used on salt-glaze, tin-oxide wares, creamwares and lead-glazed wares. Similar faces with dark brown slip for eyes are even more limited. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O190227/bust-unknown/
There is some indication that this bust might be that of the Duke of Cumberland. https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75483
Staffordshire Salt-Glazed White Stoneware Bear Jug and Cover, 1770-80, seated on it’s haunches, applied with frit and brown slip, with replacement silver arms holding a nut and neck collar, 8 1/4.” The silver pieces each separately marked with a dolphin in a triangle, for Dutch .833 purity, 1893-1905, also makers initials in a rectangle. Fine cracks to base.
RPW00525 $4,500
Staffordshire White Salt-Glazed Stoneware Pickle Dish, c.1755, the pickle dish of lobed oval form molded with a scene of a Chinoiserie figure beside a pagoda, the rim with flowers, 4 5/8 in, two rim chips and fine mold making hairline.
RPW00425 $900
See, Salt Glazed Stoneware in Early America, Janine E. Skerry & Suzanne F, Hood. Pg. 150, Fig, 16, Henry Weldon Collection, 2001- 477, 2., and detail, pg. 134. In the related text it is stated that “A fragment of a sweetmeat dish decorated with a man in a Chinese landscape surrounded by flowers, another man and a bird was excavated at Mount Vernon.”
See - A Passion for Pottery The Henry H. Weldon Collection. Peter Williams & Pat Halfpenny. pg. 91. Illus, 42. Weldon 445.
Diana Edwards illustrates an example of the pickle dish alongside a version in creamware in 'The Influence of Salt-Glazed Stoneware on Creamware Design', Creamware and Pearlware Re-examined, E.C.C. publications, 2005, pp. 157-158.
Rare London Brown Salt-Glazed Stoneware Tankard with Silver Mounted Hinged Cover, early 18thcentury, cylindrical form with round base ring below four incised lines, applied strap handle with grove, shallow domed cover with compressed button knop, stamped excise mark, crown over WR (Sept 1700 to 1702), incised crest on the silver of a lion rampant, holding a sword, 8½” high. Chip under rim of cover.
RPW00420 $7,500
Provenance.
Phillips London, June 8, 1994, lot 169 (part)
Jonathan Horne, London, October, 1994
Vogel Collection no. 602.01
Staffordshire Enameled Salt-Glazed Stoneware Cream Jug, c.1760-70, pear shape body with a plain handle, enameled with a large rose, small sprigs and a butterfly, 3 1/8.”
RPW00426 $250
