Three Wedgwood Queen's Ware Items

Description:

Three Wedgwood Queen's Ware Items, England, late 18th century, and upper-lower case marked globular teapot with molded cabbage leaf spout and double entwined handle, polychrome enamel decorated with flowers in the style of David Rhodes, ht. 5 1/2; a globular teapot and cover with molded cabbage leaf spout and double entwined handle, gilt decorated with flowers centering foliate festoons, ht. 4 3/4; and a black transfer-printed tea cannister and cover with "Tea Party" and "Shepherd" subjects, painted inscription "Sara Brugge" on the shoulder, ht. 5 1/2 in.; impressed marks.

Provenance: The Victor & Muriel Polikoff Collection.
Estimate $300-500

Floral teapot: Cover heavily repaired; pot with repair to tip of spout; chips to inner rim; overall abrasions and wear to enameling; hairline under base and extending as a "T" to lower body.
Gilded Teapot: Gilding may be later. Cover with nicks along edge. Pot with chip to end of one handle tail.
Tea canister: Cover with chips to finial; restored hairline and insert stem. Canister with glaze abrasions to rim; slight glaze flakes at shoulder and footrim; 3" hairline to the right edge of the Tea Party side. 1/8" chip to footrim.


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