REDUCED RARE 14pc Hackwood "Peacock" Child's Blue Transfer TEASET

Pottery : Antique : Blue & White : Juvenile

 

This blue Staffordshire Transferware TEA SET is in the "Peacock" pattern but in the Hackwood mould, not the less attractive versions by Benjamin Godwin illustrated in both Lechler, ENGLISH TOY CHINA and Punchard, PLAYTIME POTTERY & PORCELAIN (Fig.25,p12 and p31, top). For the Hackwood shape, refer to Punchard, p55, top, or to Lechler, p11, Fig.24.

Circa 1827 to 1843.

IN THIS SET: Teapot w/ Lid, Sugar w/ lid, Creamer, Slop Bowl, 4 cups and 4 saucers.

CONDITION: Perfect Condition: 4 CUPS, 4 SAUCERS, CREAMER.

With Issues: The TEA POT LID has a missing triangular chip and has been re-stuck in 3 pieces. The POT has nibbles to the ledge on which the lid sits. Very small firing faults on the spout & handle. 4 cute little embossed feet, only one with a hidden surface flake. The SUGAR BOWL has helmet rim hairlines, both extend down mid-way to the bowl's waist. The LID was broken in half and is re-stuck with no piece missing but with surface flaking at one narrow end inside, and 6 aged flea-bites. Glaze crazing toward two feet and just above them. The WASTE BOWL has a new surface chip on the inside, rim down-ward and a finger-nail nick, pattern side, about 1" from the surface flake.

MARKS: a few pieces have a circular blue mark under glaze. The saucers all have a sun-burst like mark, impressed, also resembling a 10 to 12-petaled flower, very small.

The quality is high-end, with great transfer placement, dolphin handles, embossed little feet, and beautiful pedestal foot, lovely handle cups. Good glaze, clean creamy white ground and a medium to dark blue transfers. This set must have graced the nursery of a privileged British child (or the child of a rich American Tourist?).

SOME SIZES: TEAPOT, from base to tip of handle's thumb-rest: 4ins. SLOP BOWL, almost 2-1/2" high with a rim span of 4-1/8". All cups have a pedestal foot base, recessed bottom. Saucers sit on a ring base. Creamer, Sugar and Teapot have 4 cute daisy-like little feet. Adorable!

Item ID: CTS-1

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