STAFFORDSHIRE TRANSFER-PRINTED TEA ARTICLES, LOT OF FIVE, comprising a teapot and covered sugar with matching Fruit on Woven Mat pattern, a teapot with Two Girls and Butterfly pattern depicting young women in a flower garden, a creamer featuring Three Pagodas pattern, and a sugar having Shells with Seaweed pattern. Marks to underside include impressed "3". William Adams & Sons, Stoke-on-Trent, England; and others. Circa 1825. 7" HOA.
Literature: Transferware Collectors Club database patterns #1694, #2297, #10580, #14418.
Provenance: From the estate of Josephine Weidman, Cleveland, OH.
Creamer undamaged, having a few minute spots of glaze wear; Girls and Butterfly teapot having minute flake to spout, a minor hairline to lower body, primarily visible to interior only, and cover with a minor chip and some scattered flakes; shell sugar having chip to rim and scattered flakes to interior gallery; Fruit on Mat sugar with chip to cover and some minor flakes to rim and interior gallery, teapot with moderate imperfections including crack to lower body and broken and glued repairs to cover.