Sold for:
$1,968
$1,968
White Salt-glazed Stoneware King of Prussia Teapot and Cover, England, c. 1756-63, probably Staffordshire, globular shape with molded crabstock handle and spout, black ermine ground with polychrome enameled central reserves, one side with titled portrait depiction of "Fred III Prufsiae Rex," the reverse with Prussian eagle bearing a ribbon inscribed "Semper Sublimis," ht. 4 1/4 in. Provenance: From the Troy Chappell Collection; Jonathan Horne. Literature: Identical illustrated in British Teapots & Tea Drinking , by Emmerson, illus. 14.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-07-15
