$20,000
Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000
English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Auction: October 7, 2014 11:00:00 AM EDT
The tortoise form teapot with conch shell resting amidst seaweed atop its shell to form the knop and cover, its exaggerated tail curved upward to form the handle and open mouth the spout, impressed Mintons to the underside with indistinct date cypher likely for 1880; the teapot shape 629.
H: 5, W: 8 1/2, D: 4 1/2 in.Provenance: Property from the collection of Debra and I. Michael Coslov, Haverford, PA.
A similar teapot sold at Bonham's London, June 7, 2006.