A squat one cup bachelor’s teapot with raised Gothic Revival decoration on a pale blue paneled body, often mistaken for a piece from a child’s tea set. This salt glazed pottery teapot was made in the Staffordshire region of England in the mid 1800’s
Teapot stands 3-1/4″ tall and has the same scrolled decoration on each panel
When the original lid became lost or broken, a metalsmith made a simple replacement metal lid of tin with a delicately turned pewter knob
The person who repaired this 7″ tall EAPG (Early American Pattern Glass) oil lamp in the “Sawtooth” pattern threw caution to the wind and developed their own whimsical pyramid base, which bares no resemblance at all to the original glass base
This joint is where the lamp attaches to the painted base, showing “alligator” finish red line detailing
The overscaled base measures 7″ square
The remains of the heavily sawtoothed stem are visible from the underside of the base
This identical lamp, fully intact, reveals how much is actually missing from my lamp
Photo courtesy of iOffer
This English-made soft paste pottery waste bowl was originally part of a larger tea set. Waste bowls, aka slop bowls, were used for pouring out the remaining cold tea before pouring another cup of tea. It has a cobalt blue & white transfer decoration of a bee skep in a bucolic pastoral setting
The many cracks on the sides have been stabilized by the careful addition of small ridged metal staples, which appear to be machine made
A single bent metal staple affixed to the underside acts as a crutch and ingeniously supports the broken base
Bowl measures 2-1/2″ high with a dimeter of 4-1/8″
