EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO ATTRIBUTED ROCKINGHAM / FLINT ENAMEL GLAZE YELLOWWARE TEAPOT, (updated 3/11/2024) mottled blue, green, and brown polychrome flint enamel-style lead glazing over a yellowware body, tall and wide baluster form with scalloped footed/pedestal base, relief-molded with series of trailing crisscrossed strawberry vine and floral decorations, 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. 10" HOA, 4 1/2" 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. 33.36, 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 colored 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". A much smaller but similarly-molded example of this teapot is pictured in the Majolica Mania article, and is currently in the possession of the Museum of Ceramics of East Liverpool. That example is attributed to a different East Liverpool factory, McDevitt & Moore. It is likely that multiple East Liverpool potteries made similar versions of this product.

Having moderate overall wear/scratching, heavy scattered chipping and flaking to cover flange and teapot's inner rim, moderate losses around the end of spout, and with the ends of the cover-catch protrusions worn off; loss to the hole-punched area of the internal wall/tea strainer inside spout, with a very tight associated 2" hairline visible only on interior; cover's finial broken off and glued.