A rare Vauxhall teapot and cover, circa 1757-59

of globular form, printed and then coloured on each side with a cartouche of fashionable figures in a European landscape within a puce scroll border, the cover with a scene of a shepherd and a musician, minor chips.

The Margaret Cadman Collection, Christie's, London, 11th October 2002, lot 56

There are some small chips to the rim of the spout. There is a flat shallow chip to the outside edge of the cover
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Two small lobed plates decorated with the same scene of two figures in a landscape but in purple scroll edged frames, surrounded by scattered flower sprigs and butterflies, are in the Schreiber collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. nos. 414:76-1885 and 414:76/A-1885. A third plate in this pattern from the James McGregor Stewart Collection, was sold at Sotheby's, London, 13th November 1973, lot 33. Nicholas Crisp, born in 1704, initially worked as a jeweller after apprenticing as a haberdasher. Later he joined the Lambeth potter, John Saunders in a porcelain venture and the pair gained a ten-year soap Rock mining licence in 1751. By 1753 the manufactory was publically advertising its range of wares:

‘At Mr. SANDER’s, near the Plate Glasshouse, Vauxhall, is now to be sold, a strong and useful Manufacture of PORCELAINE WARE, made there of English Materials… The essential Properties of China-ware, besides the Beauty of its Colours, are these: That it is as smooth, and as easily cleaned as Glass’.