Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A WEDGWOOD CREAMWARE TEAPOT AND COVER CIRCA 1775
Auction Closed
October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A WEDGWOOD CREAMWARE TEAPOT AND COVER CIRCA 1775
of globular shape with a leaf-molded spout and double twisted handle, perhaps painted in the workshop of David Rhodes, with a vignette showing Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn in her chariot drawn by two winged horses, the reverse with a colorful sunrise below two winged putti heads, separated by a 'chintz' band, impressed lower case Wedgwood mark.
Height 5⅜ in.
13.8 cm
Bonhams London, December 8, 2004, lot 257
Jonathan Horne, London, bearing label, January 2007
A Wedgwood teapot depicting Aurora was in the Oster Collection, sold at Sotheby's London, November 30, 1971, lot 50, and a similarly decorated Greatbatch creamware teapot in the collection of the City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, is illustrated in David Barker, William Greatbatch a Staffordshire Potter, London, 1991, col. pl. X.