A very rare Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware teapot and cover, circa 1750-55

of flattened globular form, painted in a colourful palette with panels of an angel emerging from a cloud above a bird perched on a peony branch, all reserved on a pale turquoise ground, minor chips and haircrack.

Mrs. Frances Dickson Collection
The Shand Kydd Collection, Sotheby's, London, 25th November 1997, lot 216

Frank Tilley, Teapots and Tea, 1957, col. pl. A

There are some chips and old restoration to the tip of the spout. There are two small chips to the rim of the teapot, one resulting in a hairline crack, and there is a further hairline crack to the rim.
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