A STAFFORDSHIRE SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE 'CAMEL' TEAPOT AND COVER CIRCA 1755

perhaps Thomas and John Wedgwood, 'The Big House', Burslem, the kneeling beast molded on one side with a gentleman and an attendant beneath an hexagonal howdah molded with figural, bird and flower panels, set with a 'notched' loop handle, the cover molded with four floral panels.

Constantine Collection, bearing the collector's label
Jonathan Horne, London

Apart from an extremely minor pinhead chip to the edge of the cover, both are in generally good condition.
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Examples of this exact type of camel teapot are illustrated by Peter Walton, Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House Leeds., p. 39, no. 99; Charles F. C. Luxmoore, English Saltglazed Earthenware, 1924, pl. 5; and Bernard Rackham, The Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. II, pl. 39A, no. 573. An identical teapot was also in the Collection of Bernard and Judith Newman, sold in these rooms, January 20, 2005, lot 259.