Creamware Coffeepot and Cover

Description:

Creamware Coffeepot and Cover, England, c. 1790, the body decorated with a field of colored slip shavings, inlaid engine-turned checkering, and engine-turned vertical ribs, molded spout and extruded handle with leaf terminals, the lid with acorn knop, ht. 10 1/4 in.

Literature: Illustrated in Donald Carpentier and Jonathan Rickard's article "Slip Decoration in the Age of Industrialization," in Ceramics in America, Vol. 1, 2001.
The Collection of Jonathan Rickard
Estimate $1,000-1,500

Tiny chips on tip of spout, small chip on inner ring of lid.


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