$800
Two Drab-colored Salt-glazed Stoneware Items, England, mid 18th century, probably Staffordshire, a globular shaped teapot and cover with molded white crabstock handle, spout and twig knop, mold applied white relief with a formal foliate bibbing above central Tudor roses flanked with arabesque motifs, ht. 4 3/8; and pear-shape milk jug with white sparrow beak spout, loop handle, and tripod lion mask and paw feet, applied white vines with white and randomly blue-stained flowers and foliage, ht. 5 in. Provenance: Teapot ex Ginsburg & Levy; jug ex Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts; Garry Atkins. Literature: Similar teapot illustrated in A Collector's History of English Pottery , by Lewis, p. 71.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-04-08
