Early Boy on a Buffalo Pattern Teapot and Cover c1754-56

An early Worcester porcelain teapot and cover or squat shape, hand pencilled in black with the Boy on a Buffalo pattern c1754.

Black pencilled decoration was actually done with a very fine paintbrush probably only having a single hair

The squat form, handle shape and finial are indicative of the so called scratch cross period at Worcester C 1753/55

There is a black enamel workman’s mark to the base

The teapot measures 20.5cm across from handle to tip of spout and it stands 12.5cm tall to top of finial

Condition is excellent with just a firing fault at the bottom of the spout