Teapot, soft paste porcelain, globular shape with bracketed ring handle, blue stained clay flower knop on lid, painted in enamel colours with chinoiserie figures and pink scale borders, not marked, attributed to Ralph Baddeley and William Littler, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, c1777-1784
William Littler's last fully documented venture at West Pans in Scotland ended in ruin in 1777; this teapot belongs to a class of wares linked stylistically to a slightly later period, but which chemical analysis has shown matches earlier pieces by Littler; there is some evidence that he may have been working for Ralph Baddeley at this time, so the ware in question is tentatively referred to as the Baddeley-Littler group
William Littler's last fully documented venture at West Pans in Scotland ended in ruin in 1777; this teapot belongs to a class of wares linked stylistically to a slightly later period, but which chemical analysis has shown matches earlier pieces by Littler; there is some evidence that he may have been working for Ralph Baddeley at this time, so the ware in question is tentatively referred to as the Baddeley-Littler group
