Description:
Small or child's round or bullet-shaped teapot with applied collar or flange to shoulder of pot, straight extruded spout with some beveling and London-shaped angular handle, circular cover with flattened button shaped finial, lead-glazed, brown earthenware body with yellow overglaze transfer-printed decoration in chinoiserie pattern of pagodas in an aquatic landscape with very intricate border of butterflies, lotuses, and crosshatching, probably made in Staffordshire or Sunderland, England, 1810-1820, of a type often called by collectors “Portobello” ware; interior of teapot and cover are covered in a layer of white slip. Pattern is unknown in Transferware Collectors Club database. On base is attached dealer label for "Wynn Sayman." In the past this type of yellow transfer-printed brown ware is sometimes referred to as "Portobello ware" and was associated with the Portobello Factory of Scotland - In fact, this ware was not made at the Portobello factory nor made in Scotland at all-- It is now thought to have produced by potters in Staffordshire and the Scott Brothers of Southwick Pottery in Sunderland.
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