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Lot 299
An Unusual Pearlware Covered Teapot
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Staffordshire, 1780-1795, the pearlware vessel is veneered with Turners' Waste, the inlaid checker pattern below the rim was likely created on a thin slip of clay and then applied, the lower portion of the body is engine turned, lid with acorn finial, maker unknown but possibly manufactured by Wood & Caldwell.

5 x 8.5 in.

From the Estate of the Late Albert Sack

Turners’ Waste: shavings from a variety of colored clays, involving the horizontal lathe, then rolled into a flat, thin sheet and applied to the pot body in the unfired state.

Some crazing and discoloration; roughness to inner rim of the cover.

$400 - 600