A Staffordshire cream-coloured earthenware teapot and cover manufactured by Thomas Whieldon at Fenton Vivian works. Circa 1757
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“A Very Rare and fine small Staffordshire teapot and cover”
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A Very Rare and fine Staffordshire cream- coloured earthenware teapot and cover decorated with sponged grey, green and yellow under glazed oxides colours and then an applied transparent lead glaze .
This was manufactured by Thomas Whieldon at Fenton Vivian works Staffordshire England in the mid eighteenth century.
The teapot with a crabstock handle and spout, squat globular body applied meandering plant stems leaves and flower heads with a moulded rosette either side of the body, the cover has a flower head finial surrounded by four fern shaped leaves of which several shards of the lid have been excavated at the Fenton factory site which operated from 1747 to1780.
With the body made from a cream- coloured earthenware and a young Josiah Wedgwood working along side Thomas Whieldon in a partnership from 1754 to 1759 researching and developing different types of bodies it’s believed this was the inspiration in later years for Wedgwood creamware .
Circa: 1757
Condition; A small chip to the end of the spout three small chips on the cover invisibly restored by Alan Finney of Ceramic. Restoration Studios Ltd, Biddulph, Staffordshire.
Size; 9 cm ‘3.5 inches’ high,
16.5cm ‘6.5’ wide from spout to handle
“Condition and Authenticity Guaranteed Genuine”
