A Chinese Export or English Colonial Silver Adam-Style Teapot, Circa 1790
Lot Closed
January 20, 05:40 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
of oval urn form, chased with swags pendent from ram’s masks, narrow beaded borders, the lower body chased with stylized palm and acanthus, leaf-chased spout and leafy handle terminals, urn finial rising from spreading leaves, oval pedestal foot, maker’s mark on base double struck, cf. CS (S backwards) or CU
23 oz. gross, 715 g
Height: 8 ½ in., 21.6 cm
A related slightly later teapot, maker’s mark CS is in the collection of Rhode Island Historical Society, illus. in Carl L. Crossman's, The China Trade, 1972, p.225 , no. 195, mark illus. p. 224.
The form of the teapot may be based on pattern books of Boulton and Fothergill, 1762-90, of which a page is illustrated in Matthew Boulton, Selling What All The World Desires, ed. Shena Mason, 2009, p. 163.
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