April 12, 2024
ELIJAH MAYER SMALL CANEWARE CREAM COLOURED TEAPOT c1790-1800 Very Rare.
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Here is a magnificent bachelor size cream coloured caneware teapot just holding about three cups of tea. It has superb sprigging of classical origin of putti in various poses as shown and acanthus leaf decoration on the fine handle. Unlike most other I have seen there is no bayonet section but a straight through spout. It would have been made about 1790 and although unmarked it has many features common to other marked wares by Elijah Mayer, a very fine maker of both basalt and caneware pieces of this type, and of this white stoneware. The exact dimensions of the teapot are: Height to finial head 12cm, handle to spout tip 21cm. width 9cm and length of main body 12cm. It has a Widow of Zarapheth figure on the finial and this fits the other Elijah Mayer pieces I have in basalt. It has the same intersecting circles on the cover around the finial and on the top border of the pot as can be seen in many other Mayer examples. The teapot also has very neatly cut vertical engine turning below the midline of the body to the base. See Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampsons fine work "English Dry-bodied stoneware 1774-1830". page 149-152 and plate 205. This one has a straight (un-bayonetted) spout but the sprigs are the same as the ones on figure 205 in the above book which is described as Caneware. There are some stains around the cover opening and
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