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Lot 157

A rare Longton Hall teapot and cover, circa 1756-58

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,402.50 inc. premium

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A rare Longton Hall teapot and cover, circa 1756-58

Of barrel shape with a distinctive scroll handle with spur thumbrest, the lower section of the curved spout moulded with scrolls, the cover with an acorn finial, painted in blue with the 'Ruined Castle' pattern of a Chinese landscape with an oriental fisherman in a sampan, an oriental hut and two crenulated towers in the distance, the cover with a smaller landscape vignette, 10.2cm high (2)

Footnotes

For the so-called 'Ruined Castle' pattern, see Bernard Watney, Excavations at the Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory, Post Mediaeval Archaeology, Vol.27 (1993), pl.3 where a teabowl and saucer of the pattern is illustrated alongside glazed fragments found on the factory site.

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