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Sprigged stoneware/ Jasper ware. Pale blue jasper teapot with Shylock & Portia sprigs. Neale & Co., probably, Staffordshire, Hanley, Church Works. James Neale & Co./ Neale & Wilson. Oval with straight sides, flat shoulder with a circular scalloped gallery surrounding the almost flat cover which has a pierced ball knob; straight sloping spout moulded in two halves and having sixteen holes forming a lozenge behind it in the wall of the pot; ear-shaped handle with a cusp on the lower side. The lower edge is decorated with a white 'rope' over which there is a zone of engine-turned basket weave. Above on one side there is a white relief of Portia flanked by two plants and two small trees, and on the other side a white relief of Shylock flanked by two plants and two small trees. The top edge is decorated with pierced white overlapping circles. The cover has a central knob with white horizontal white band, surrounded by alternating four-petalled flowers and addorsed leaves. The lower part of the spout is moulded in relief with acanthus and the handle is reeded and has an acanthus leaf at the top and a smaller one at its base. Pale blue jasper, engine-moulded (handle and spout separately), and sprig decorated, height, whole, 12.2 cm, length, handle-spout, 23.5 cm, width, whole, 10.9 cm, length, body, 13.1 cm, circa 1785-1790. Neoclassical.
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