Description
A rare mid 18th century English scratch-blue salt-glazed stoneware teapot and cover, decorated with flowers and leaves, with chevron borders to the shoulder of the teapot and the rim of the cover.
The teapot is accompanied by a scratch-blue shard excavated in the 1990s at the Jackfield Pottery site, Shropshire. The decoration on the shard is remarkably similar in character to that of the present teapot, providing important archaeological evidence supporting its attribution to Jackfield. The excavations undertaken at The Jackfield Pottery site in the 1990’s produced a considerable and varied range of ceramic material, including white salt-glazed stoneware, salt-glazed stoneware saggers, slipware, manganese-mottled ware, and, of course, black-glazed earthenware. These finds provide an important reminder that ceramic production at Jackfield was considerably more diverse than the black glazed ware for which the pottery is famous. The associated scratch-blue shard is particularly significant in this context, offering a rare archaeological parallel for the decoration on the teapot.