Item 23
Current bid: $500 |
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Item: 23 Description: U-990 Confederate “Tea Pot” Insulator with beige color alkaline glaze. Condition Rarity: This insulator has its original “spout” intact and is completely unrestored. Teapots with their original undamaged and unrestored spouts are quite scarce. Grade B-Plus: A few spots of disturbed (flaked) glaze, likely from having been buried. The “fracture” lines have to do with the formation of the insulator (seam lines and glaze shrinkage during firing) and are not actual fractures from damage. The Southern Porcelain Company of Kaolin, South Caroline made insulators under contract to the Confederate Army until its factory was destroyed by fire in 1864. These are nicknamed “teapots” because of their shape with the wire holder shaped like the spout of a teapot. Estimate: $800 - $1,000 Open: $350 Current bid: $500 |
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