A rare John Pennington (Liverpool) teapot and cover c.1775

A rare John Pennington (Liverpool) teapot and cover c.1775, the inverted pear-shape body painted in the atelier of James Giles with panels of fruit and flowers reserved on a blue and gilt ground, the spout formed as the head of a mythical beast, the cover's finial attached to the handle with a gilt metal chain, 21cm. (2)

Provenance: the C E Hanley Collection. Purchased from Sotheby's, 21st February 1995, lot 57. Previously sold at Sotheby's on 17th November 1976 when it entered an Australian collection.

Illustrated: Bernard Watney, Liverpool Porcelain, p.96, fig.389. Also, ECC Transactions, Vol. 14, Part 3, 1992, p.249.