Three English Creamware Teapots including Greatbach, including a globular example, attributed to Wedgwood, transfer printed in black with a scene of two boys playing 'battledore and shuttlecock', watched by a seated girl holding a doll in her lap, and on the reverse with a windmill in a landscape, set with a foliate handle and cabbage leaf-molded spout, the cover with a scrollwork border. The Greatbach example with fruit and foliate molding in a band over the basket-moulded lower body, painted in shades of ocher, green and manganese. Third example on tripodal monopedia feet, the sides molded with grape clusters and leaves on a sprawling vine, with crabstock spout and handle. Circa 1750 - 1765.
{Approximate dimensions: 4 1/4" H. to 5 1/2" H.}.
Condition: Crazing to glaze, throughout. Minor minute chips to spouts, flanges and edges of covers. Smallest with restoration to spout and cover. Minor irregularities of black dots, as made.
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For the transfer-printed example: Private San Francisco Collection; The Starr Collection, label no. 131; Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection, Sotheby's New York, January, 20, 2006, lot 160; David Newbon, London; The Dr. E. J. Sidebottom Collection, bearing collection label no. 333. Greatbach teapot: As sold by Jonathan Horne. The tripodal miniature teapot as sold by Martyn Edgell.
Literature:
Sandon, 1973, p. 83, pl. 105
Goldweitz, 1984. p. 21 and pl. 30a
Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Public Library, 1973
This print, apparently unrecorded elsewhere on creamware, also appears on a Caughley or Worcester porcelain cup, formerly in the Norman Stretton Collection, illustrated by Harriet Goldweitz, op. cit. (in Literature above), pl. 30b and sold at Phillips, London, February 21, 2001, lot 68. Although the cup is apparently of later date and the print clearly of smaller size, they are extremely close in the details of the design. The source, however, remains uncertain.
A similar print, but with a fashionably dressed lady and gentleman playing the game, appears in two versions on Liverpool delftware tiles, examples of which are illustrated by Anthony Ray, Liverpool Printed Tiles, 1994, p. 25, no. B4-9 and p. 33, no. C2-2, and which probably derive from designs of printmaker John Bowles' drawing book of 1756-57. A third and quite different version of the subject derives from a Hubert Gravelot engraving and appears on Bow porcelain, for which, see Cyril Cook, The Life and Work of Robert Hancock, 1948, item 9, fig. 1.
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