English Pottery Pearlware Blue and White Oval Dish with Chinoiserie Decoration

English Pearlware Blue Chinoiserie Large Shell-edged Dish, China House Pattern Variation, Probably Staffordshire, Circa 1810 The pearlware dish, with a molded shell-edge, is painted...

Pearlware Mug with Yellow Slip Ground and Heart Decoration, Circa 1780 The English slip-decorated yellow ground tankard or mug is unusually painted with...

A fine documentary teapot, probably made to record a marriage between a sailor and his lass. Pearlware, enamelled with a square-rigged schooner.  

This is a superb coffee pot made in England between 1800 and 1825. The pot is made of pearlware and has a very charming blue transfer printed pattern of fallow deer in a snowy landscape with farm buildings. This transfer print looks like an early 19thC print; as we couldn't identify the maker it was impossible to date it exactly. A charming detail is that the rim of the cover and the footrim, which are printed with a row of houses, both are printed up side down; this was probably done by children, who often did the smaller transfer prints because their little fingers could handle the thin strips of paper better than adults. The coffeepot is unmarked. There is an old shop label on the underside stating it is "English, probably Spode" - however, although this pot is certainly English, it is certainly not Spode. CONDITION REPORT The coffee pot is in good antique and usable condition without any damage to the pot or the spout; there are just some chips off the lower rim of the cover, which are not visible when in position and are inconsequential for using the pot. As is normal for antique pearlware...