More reasons for Salisbury rooms to bless America

It was in keeping with a Salisbury sale dominated by the remarkable £460,000 bid for a teapot made at Cain Hoy, South Carolina by John Bartlam c.1765 (see ATG 2331), that the same Woolley & Wallis (25% buyer’s premium) ceramics sale included a group of three rare enamel boxes made for the American market.

Each carrying a politically-charged slogan and dated from c.1780, these had paper labels suggestin…

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