Antique Gaudy Welsh Finial Button Lidded Fruit Basket Pattern Teapot

Vintage 19th Century Antique FRUIT BASKET Pattern Staffordshire Gaudy Welsh Button Finial Lidded Teapot *please read description* With lid on, teapot measures roughly 9" tall x 10" long x 6" in diameter at the widest point of the belly. Piece is broken pretty badly broken at tip of spout, and no restoration has been done, given it's missing materials (ceramic slivers of the spout's tip), and there's a few significant Harlines inside and out (refer to photos). Regardless of aforementioned issues, this is still a beautiful piece, and is a perfect addition to a displayed collection. Sold as pictured. Copied from the web: The name Gaudy Welsh entered the pottery collectors vocabulary and the antique world when Professor Howard Williams mentioned it in his 1978 publication. He also standardised many of the names ascribed to patterns we now associate with Gaudy Welsh Pottery. Gaudy Welsh, a name which describes perfectly the hand-painted decoration applied primarily to tea sets, bowls and