The story behind the Met’s epic £460,000 auction battle for ‘America’s first china teapot’
A hitherto unrecorded teapot attributed to a pioneering North American porcelain factory sold last week for a remarkable £460,000 (plus premium) at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury.
The vessel, only the seventh piece known from the John Bartlam factory in Cain Hoy, South Carolina…