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 the public by too pretentious names". Another example of this teapot, apparently unmarked, is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art as object no. 302771, where it is attributed to Croxall & Cartwright of East Liverpool. It is likely that multiple East Liverpool potteries made similar versions of this product, although very few are known to exist today, marked or unmarked.

Good condition with several scattered small chips and flakes to cover and teapot rim, end of spout, and chipping to cover-catch protrusions; a short network of tight radial hairlines from the base extending up to the body near the lowest part of the spout; a small pinhole to body, barely visible from exterior, but passing light through to the inside where it seems an internal chip led to the hole.