Shipshape teapot: Wedgwood commemorative surfaces in the saleroom

This Wedgwood creamware tea or punch pot commemorating the launch of a gun ship at Deptford in 1784 was among 29 lots from the collection of The Worshipful Company of Shipwrights sold by specialist Charles Miller.

Estimated at £600-800 at the auction on April 29, it took £1800 at the west London auction.

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