Untitled
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1750
Materials
Salt glaze
Measurements
250.30 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Trelissick, Cornwall
NT 1296212
Summary
A fine Staffordshire saltglaze guglet,circa 1750. Of plain pear shape painted with a lady pouring tea for a gentleman who holds a cup and saucer, both seated either side of a folding table, the reverse painted with a large house on an island in front of water, with two green bands to the rim, 25.3cm high
Full description
A fine Staffordshire saltglaze guglet, circa 1750 Of plain pear shape painted with a lady pouring tea for a gentlemen who holds a cup and saucer, both seated on either side of a folding table, the reverse painted with a large house on an island in front of water, withtwo green bands to the rim, 25.3cm high
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust from William Copeland via Bonhams at 'The Contents of Trelissick House including The Copeland China Collection' sale,Feock, near Truro, Cornwall, 23rd-24th July 2013, Lot 431 The T.G.Cannon collection, High Chase Colwich. With Law, Foulsham & Cole, 1934, purchased for £145. The Lord Revelstoke Collection, sold at Puttick & Simpson, 20 November 1934 When Josiah Spode was a boy in Lane Delph he probably worked at local pothouses making stoneware and it is likely William Banks and John Turner were manufacturing saltglaze when Josiah Spode joined them in the early 1760s. Ronald Copeland was therefore interested in collecting saltglaze as it represented the earliest kind of ware that Spode would have made