Worcester Globular Teapot, Decorated in Underglaze Blue Flowers with Gilt Foliage, Moulded Flower Finial, Blue Crescent Mark, c1775

(p1220)

A very attractive and elegant Worcester teapot and cover c1775. This beautiful teapot is of a smooth globular shape, with open loop handle, elegantly shaped spout and a cover with a beautiful moulded flower finial. the teapot and cover are charmingly decorated with underglaze blue flowers with very very finely gilded foliage in a rich honey coloured gilding.

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The decoration of this teapot is first rate. The rich underglaze cobalt blue flowers are embellished with extremely fine gilding, rather is the Dresden or French style. Around the top of the body is a dentilated gilded band of decoration

The same type of floral decoration is applied to both sides of the teapot

The moulded handle is of a simple open loop shape, the back of which is beautifully decorated with further blue flowers and fine gilding.

The elegantly shaped spout is also embellished with blue and gilt floral decoration to both the front and top portion.

The tip of the spout is also gilded.

The elegant circular cover to the teapot is of a low domed shape with a beautifully moulded flower and leaf finial.

The flower is a fine decorative finial for such a lovely teapot. The flower is edged with extremely fine gilding, as is its stem and two leaves which attach it to the cover. There is the same beautiful blue and gilt flower decoration to the cover.

Inside the teapot there is a set of straining holes in the shape of a circle comprising 8 holes in total.

This is a most beautiful and very elegant Worcester globular Teapot, decorated in underglaze blue flowers with gilt foliage, moulded flower finial, blue crescent mark, c1775.

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Marks:

The underside of the teapot carried the Worcester underglaze blue open crescent. This teapot dates to c1775.

Condition:

This magnificent Worcester teapot is in very good condition with only very minor wear to the fine gilt decoration.

There is a mysterious circular patch on one side of the teapot  towards the spout, which looks like a glaze fault. See the pictures below. This little patch is approx 10mm in diameter and looks like the glaze is very thin and with tiny pitting within it.

The flower finial appears to have one piece of petal missing (on the left side of the pictures below). However, the broken edge does appear to be glazed over, so this may have been from the manufacturing?

There are two very tiny firing cracks, one on the joint of the spout to the body of the teapot, the other to the inside top of the handle. These are shown in the pictures below. They are both very small and insignificant.

Finally, on the cover's inner rim there is what appears another tiny firing fault. The colour looks a little dark as if it has been filled, but I do not believe this to be the case, I think is is just a manufacturing fault.

This is certainly a very handsome early Worcester teapot and cover that is very pretty and beautifully decorated. A fine addition to any collection of early Worcester or English porcelain.

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