Salt-glazed Stoneware Camel Teapot & Cover, c1745-1750, 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 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. Contem-
porary use of ‘curious’ meant ‘rare.’ Vide, p. 565, for a mansion-shape teapot.
3 Tilley, Teapots and Tea, p. 22, for observation.”
See
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. TheLady 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, Applied paper label skinner… 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
Staffordshire Tortoise Shell Globular Teapot, 1740/50, leaf molded spout, with a streaked brown/green glaze, 5 1/4”. Chips under cover edge.
RPW00571 $1,200
Staffordshire Whieldon Teapot, 1750s, small globular body with sponged Whieldon type glaze, 3 1/2.” Old restored chips to cover edge and spout end, two hairlines to body.
RPW00572 $780
Small Ovoid Whieldon Type Teapot, 1760s, the globular body raised on three molded feet, applied with moulded grapes and foliage, with a mottled sponged tortoise shell glaze, 4 3/4”. Chips to cover and end of spout
RPW00575 ON HOLD
Black Glazed ‘Jackfield-Type’ Teapot, 1760s, the globular body raised on three molded feet, crab stock handle and bird finial, applied with moulded roses and foliage picked out in gilt, 4 3/4.” Cover repaired, chips to mouth and end of spout.
RPW00573 $270
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 base, handle & spout. (Nice painting thou…!)
RPW00570 ON HOLD
Large Named and Dated Creamware Teapot and Cover, 1778, cylindrical form, with straight tapering spout and overlapping twisted handle with molded foliate terminals, inscribed ‘John Parker, Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, 1778,’ within an oval wreath and trellis border, on a pavilioned island ground. 9” high. Hairline to the reverse, small chips under cover, spout and base.
RPW00444 $4,000
See – Dated in Blue, Underglaze Blue Painted Earthenware, 1776 – 1800. Lois Roberts, pg, 32, illus, 27. Although recorded and illustrated the piece is stated as being (Whereabouts unknown.)
