Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Rare English Staffordshire creamware teapot, circa 1775, probably by William Greatbatch, with gadrooned borders, the cylindrical body with polychrome lead glaze decoration with an entwined heart above the inscription ‘Love Unites Us’ surrounded by stylised garlands to one side and a house within a landscape setting to the other, the cover with a moulded bud finial surrounded by floral sprays, the applied strap handle of entwined form with flower leaf terminals; height: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) For a similar example see Deerfield Museum, Massachusetts, Acquisition No. 56.036. Other versions of this teapot have an inverse inscription of variously ‘true Love is pure and will endure’ and ‘When this you see/Remember me/tho many miles/we distant be’. SOLD
Guest & Gray 58 Davies StreetLondonW1K 5LP
