English Teapot Brown Polychrome Alfred Meakin English Transferware Tonquin Waterfall Swans Sailboat

$119.99

Brand Alfred Meakin

Gorgeous, Brown PolychromeTransferware tea pot by Alfred Meakin!
Hard to find in the Tonquin pattern and this shape!

Each side of the coffeepot depicts a Colonial Victorian home set against a lake with a sailboat on the water...the foreground shows a bridge over a cascading waterfall with a pair of swans wading in the calmer waters below. This beautiful piece has hand painted accents in green, red, yellow and blue.

Measures: about 5 1/2" tall to the top of the finial on the lid x 9 1/4" handle-to-spout.
No chips or cracks, there is crazing present
marked on bottom "Tonquin Alfred Meakin Staffordshire England - A Hand engraved pattern applied under the glaze Detergent Proof".  Also stamped/indented into the pottery "23     3     England"