A very rare Limehouse blue and white teapot and cover, circa 1746-48
of small size and globular form, delicately painted in blue on one side with a large branch issuing peony flowers extending through the handle, the reverse with a smaller branch and scattered with four small winged insects, the cover similarly decorated and the spout with two branches and two large leaves.
Quantity: 2
9.5cm., 3 3/4 in. high
A Chelsea Kakiemon hexagonal teapot and cover, circa 1750-52
painted in an unusual palette with 'The Lady in the Pavilion' pattern, with chevron borders at the rims, the cover surmounted with a flowerhead finial, handle restored.
Quantity: 2
12cm., 4 3/4 in. high
A very rare Longton Hall tulip-moulded teapot and cover, circa 1754-57
of globular form with a vine handle and spout, moulded with tulip petals brightly painted in shades of pink and yellow and further painted with scattered insects and a flower sprig, some restoration.
Quantity: 2
12.5cm., 4 7/8 in. high
A Bow Kakiemon teapot and cover, circa 1752
of small size and lobed oval form, painted in Kakiemon style with flowering prunus branches and an iron-red lappet and saw-tooth border to the rim, minor chip, hairline crack.
Quantity: 2
9cm., 3 1/2 in. high
A Longton Hall small teapot and cover, circa 1755
of globular form with a bird's head spout and wishbone handle, painted in a famille-rose palette with peonies and prunus within diaper borders at the rims, the cover surmounted by a cherry finial, restored handle.
Quantity: 2
9.5cm., 3 3/4 in. high
A very rare Richard Chaffers Liverpool relief-moulded white teapot and cover, circa 1758
of squat globular form, each side crisply moulded with scenes of Chinoiserie figures, three figures playing musical instruments on one side and two drinking tea in a garden on the other, within scroll-edged borders, finial replaced, two restored chips.
Quantity: 2
10.2cm., 4 in. high
A Philip Christian, Liverpool teapot and cover, circa 1770-75
of globular form with a ribbed handle, painted with two large and eight small gilt-edged panels of flowers against an enamelled scale blue ground, beneath a gilt dentil border.
Quantity: 2
16.5cm., 6 1/2 in. high
A rare Vauxhall teapot and cover, circa 1757-59
of globular form, printed and then coloured on each side with a cartouche of fashionable figures in a European landscape within a puce scroll border, the cover with a scene of a shepherd and a musician, minor chips.
Quantity: 2
12.3cm., 4 7/8 in. high
A rare Worcester armorial teapot and cover, circa 1758-60
of pear form, affixed with a faceted spout and loop handle, printed in black by Robert Hancock and painted in orange-red and gold with the arms of Marke of Liskeard and the motto 'PAR SIT FORTUNA LABORI', the reverse printed with a bust-length portrait of the King of Prussia (version no. 3), inscribed R Hancock fecit Worcester half hidden in the ribbon and further with R H Worcester and the anchor rebus of Richard Holdship, the shallow domed cover with a flower finial, minor chips.
Quantity: 2, 14cm., 5 1/2 in. high