Rare Antique Staffordshire Sepia Transferware Brown Transfer Early English Earthenware Tea Set. Comprising teapot & cover (11" long x 6¾" h), sugar box & cover, cream jug, waste bowl (3 ¼"h x 6 3/8" dia), 6 handle-less London shape tea bowls (3¾" dia x 2½" h), & 5 saucers (5 5/8 dia). Oval fluted shape with molded serpent head handles, flower finials, scalloped gallery, on four molded feet. Tea bowls & saucers are smooth edge London shape introduced c.
Finely detailed pattern of an exotic bird on flowered trellis alternating with a manor house view around exteriors & rims. Center scene of classical architecture in ruin with a seated figure overlooking a waterway with a gondola & pole-man & a distant mountain. Remarkably fine condition with only one small nick to foot of one cup, one rim edge flake on one saucer as shown, a glaze abrasion on back of one saucer & a few flea bites of little matter, otherwise clean pieces with no other chips, cracks, hairlines or repairs. Rarely found in nearly complete state. All Items Are Sent Insured.This item is in the category "Collectibles\Kitchen & Home\Dinnerware & Serveware\Teapots & Tea Sets". The seller is "jjhouse" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.