A scarce Jacobite Staffordshire teapot
£6,250
Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts
Auction: 13 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
Description
of bullet form with polychrome enamels with portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart within laurel garland cartouche, flanked with thistle and white rose, the opposing side with rose and floral bouquet, with naturalistic branch handle and spout with green enamel details, the pull off cover with branch finial and thistle, rose and bud
Dimensions
14cm high
Footnote
Notes:
Jacobite ceramics, while generally unmarked, seem to have stemmed from two main centres of production. Firstly Staffordshire and secondly the export trade from China. No Scottish made examples are recorded.
The range of wares and styles seems to predominantly (even within such a small survival) to have been for portrait representations of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, mainly taken from known portraits, or representations of the Royal Arms of Scotland in connection with known Jacobite symbolism. Items in any form are rare but more often they seem to have been made for communal use in relation with drinking, whether tea pots, punch bowls or beer jugs. These combined with the survival of Jacobite drinking glass, show the culture of celebrating the Stuart line and the society in which these were used.