Lot 143
  • 143

A rare Longton Hall tulip-moulded teapot stand, circa 1754-57

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • porcelain
  • 13.2cm., 5 1/8 in. wide
of lobed shape, moulded and enamelled with six tulip petals, brightly painted in shades of pink and yellow, with a brown edged rim.

Provenance

The William Bemrose Collection
Sotheby's, Billingshurst, 20th March 1996, lot 763

Exhibited

Stoke-on-Trent, The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Digging for Early Porcelain, 1998, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 6, fig. 3

Condition

In good condition.
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