Teapot — CRC# 1518

Description

An unusual Champion's Bristol teapot and cover, circa 1775, of distinctive pear shape with a crabstock handle and spout, painted with colourful sprays and sprigs of flowers, the shoulder and small domed cover with floral garlands entwined around gilt bands, with gilt dentil rims, the cover with a flower finial picked out in gilding

Date

1773-78

Size

14.5cm high

Condition

Perfect

Maker

Champion

Historic Provenance

Peter and Mary White Collection. Illustrated: White, Mary, Drinking at the Whites' House, Vol.2, 2021, p. 329, fig. a. Mary White discusses the impracticalities of this rare and strange form of teapot in detail, suggesting that it would never have been used. The high positioning of the spout means that the cover must be held in place when pouring, and the form would appear to be without parallel.

CRC#

1518

Type

Teapot