First Period Dr Wall Worcester Teapot and Cover painted with the Valentine Pattern, Circa 1757
Height: 5 1/2 Ins (14 cms.)
Item No. 1842
A very fine First Period Dr Wall Worcester Teapot and Cover, the globular form with applied loop handle, painted on either side with the Valentine pattern, showing a pair of...
A very fine First Period Dr Wall Worcester Teapot and Cover, the globular form with applied loop handle, painted on either side with the Valentine pattern, showing a pair of doves seated on a quiver of arrows, a garlanded breadfruit tree on Tenian Island, the altar to Hyman the Greek god of love, which bears two flaming hearts, and a love bird in flight overhead, beneath a scrolled formal border of puce lambrequin. The slightly domed cover with pointed knop finial and similar decoration.
The pattern is a copy of a Chinese Export pattern devised in essence by Lieutenant Piercey Brett for a marriage service for his serving Captain, Commodore Anson.