Teapot, lid missing, pearlware, globular shape, overglaze puce transfer print of L'Amour, a man paying court to a lady in a baroque garden landscape, originally engraved by Robert Hancock c1745 from a design by C N Cochin fils, not marked, possibly Herculaneum Pottery, Liverpool, Merseyside, c1780
L'Amour is a design associated with English porcelain, especially Worcester of c1760, this later teapot seeks to imitate an earlier porcelain example in both shape and decoration
Old label reads; Teapot: printed over-glaze in puce with L'Amour, after an engraving by Robert Hancock, first used on Worcester porcelain during the 1760: not marked: the ribbed handle occurs on Liverpool porcelain teapots of similar form:c.1780s.
L'Amour is a design associated with English porcelain, especially Worcester of c1760, this later teapot seeks to imitate an earlier porcelain example in both shape and decoration
Old label reads; Teapot: printed over-glaze in puce with L'Amour, after an engraving by Robert Hancock, first used on Worcester porcelain during the 1760: not marked: the ribbed handle occurs on Liverpool porcelain teapots of similar form:c.1780s.
