A Staffordshire white saltglaze stoneware teapot and cover, circa 1730-40 Attributed to Humphrey Palmer of Town Road, Hanley, of bullet shape with a crabstock handle and spout, sprigged with trailing branches of fruiting vine issuing from the handle, an exotic bird perched among the fruit on one side, the cover applied with a further sprig of grapes and a stalk handle, traces of gilding to the sprigged decoration, 9.5cm high (2) Footnotes: Provenance Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection, Sotheby's New York, 20 January 2006, lot 64 Literature Henry Sandon, Coffee Pots and Teapots for the Collector (1973), p.24, pl.21 Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampson, White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles (2005), p.155, col. pl.128 Exhibited Museum of the American China Trade, Milton, Massachusetts, 'I-hsing Ware and its Influence on European Ceramics', 14 November 1979 to 15 March 1980, no.1390.3A Fragments of teawares excavated from the factory site of Humphrey Palmer at Town Road, Hanley, all sprigged with the same distinctive fruiting vine and including a cover with an identical exotic bird, are illustrated by Edwards and Hampson (2005), pp.214-19, figs.203-6, 210, 214, and 217. Another similar teapot is illustrated by Arnold R Mountford, Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware (1971), pl.61. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing