Richard Sawyer, Dublin

decorated with bright cut engraving, crest of the Yeats' family on each side, underside with inscription: 'From JC to JCY'

some dents and scratches overall commensurate with age, handle broken. lid not closing properly
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This teapot was probably a gift from Jane Armstrong Clendenin (JC) to her niece Jane Grace Corbet, mother of John Butler Yeats and wife of Reverend William Butler Yeats, on the occasion of her birth. Jane Clendenin was living with her sister, Grace, Jane Corbet’s mother, and with Robert, Jane Corbet’s brother, in Sandymount Castle. They are all referred to in William Butler Yeats’ poem Are you content, published in 1938: ' I call on those that call me son, / Grandson, or great-grandson, / On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts / To judge what I have done. [...] He that in Sligo at Drumcliff /  Set up the old stone Cross, /  That red-headed rector in County Down /  A good man on a horse, Sandymount Corbets, that notable man /...'