Lot 216
Dumfries - a scarce Scottish provincial teapot pot
BY JOSEPH PEARSON, DUMFRIES CIRCA 1800, MARKED IP, FOULED ANCHOR, E, STAGS HEAD,
Auction: 13 February 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
by Joseph Pearson of Dumfries circa 1800, marked fouled anchor, IP, E, stag's head, of tapered rectangular form with banded decoration to the body, the domed hinged lid with prick dot engraved intertwined borders and hatched details to the corners, with a hexagonal finial, bold square section spout and square section angular fruit wood handle, all raised on four ball feet
Dimensions
18cm high 19.5oz
Footnote
Notes:
Items of holloware by Joseph Pearson's are quite scarce, almost all the recorded examples are now in the collection of The Stewart Museum, Dumfries, including a smaller teapot which bears a striking resemblance to this one. This teapot seems to a be a more conventional form of this current example and with a more baluster body, and everted rim which follows the examples being made in Scotland and England in the main centres of manufacture.
References: For further details on this maker see 'Dumfries Silversmiths' by Kirkpatrick H. Dobie FSA Scot
and for details of examples of holloware in the Stewarty Museum, Dumfries see' Dumfries Silversmith - hand list to the Museum collection'