Teapot, hybrid hard paste porcelain, oval shape with bridged spout, decorated with bat prints in puce showing an unidentified country house and lakeside ruins on the body and another house and a windmill on the lid, additional decoration in black enamel, not marked, made by Factory Z, ie. possibly Thomas Wolfe, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, c1810
three distinct groups of unmarked wares, the makers of which are only provisionally identified, have been allocated the letters X, Y and Z; current thinking leans towards Thomas Wolfe as the potter behind Factory Z
three distinct groups of unmarked wares, the makers of which are only provisionally identified, have been allocated the letters X, Y and Z; current thinking leans towards Thomas Wolfe as the potter behind Factory Z