Lot 692

Four Staffordshire Cauliflower Tea Vessels

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

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English, 18th century, each with cream colored florets over green glazed leaves, comprising: three teapots of varying size, largest 7-1/2 x 10 x 5-1/2 in.; tea caddy, 5 x 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 in. 

Provenance: Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

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Collection of John B. and Marie-Teresa Vander Sande, Newbury, Massachusetts

all with some surface dirt and glaze crazing; tea caddy with small chips and hairline to rim, small chip to foot, lacking lid; one smaller teapot with breaks and repairs/restorations to handle and spout, hairlines and chips to lid, break and repair to lid finial, firing cracks to base; one smaller teapot with kiln debris to foot; largest teapot with wax accretion(?) to exterior