Lot 8

Repairs to lid of the teapot and plate. Overall crazing. Losses to the foot of the tea pot.


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The collection of the late Patricia Begg, OAM
Leo Kaplan, New York, 2008 (teapot)

Creamware, Ceramics and Glass Circle, 1996; no. 8. (the plate)

Thomas Whieldon of Fenton was a master potter. From 1740 he was a pioneer of English pottery manufacture specialising in lead glazes of the mottled and tortoiseshell type.