EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO ATTRIBUTED ROCKINGHAM / FLINT ENAMEL GLAZE YELLOWWARE REBEKAH AT THE WELL TEAPOT

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EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO ATTRIBUTED ROCKINGHAM / FLINT ENAMEL GLAZE YELLOWWARE REBEKAH AT THE WELL TEAPOT, (updated 3/11/2024) mottled blue, green, and brown polychrome flint enamel style lead glazing over a yellowware body, ten-sided form relief-molded with a variation of the Rebekah at the Well scene, featuring a woman holding an amphora jug near a well, in this case with two very large fern-like trees on either side of her, with applied molded handle and spout, tea straining holes punched to interior, stamped to underside with a pair of concentric circles. Probably the Globe Pottery Co., East Liverpool, OH. Fourth quarter 19th century. 7 1/2" HOA, 4" D footring.Literature Ref 1: Laura Microulis - "Crockery City" Majolica: George Morley and the Potteries of East Liverpool, Ohio published as Chapter 33 of Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915, p. 170, figs. 33.39 and 33.40.Literature Ref 2: William & Donna Gray - Amazing Ware Made in the East Liverpool Pottery District, p. 88.Catalogue Note: This vibrantly glazed teapot falls somewhere between Rockingham and Majolica in its glazing, an ambiguity summed up by a November 1883 quote from an East Liverpool newspaper, referencing the Globe Pottery Co.'s new products: "some are calling these Majolica colors, but this firm is loth [sic] to mislead read more