What a carrion – vulture and serpent majolica teapot takes £17,000

The majolica market may have cooled a little since the white hot days of the 1990s but rarities still have the capacity to command imposing sums at auction.

The vulture and serpent teapot, designed for Minton by Colonel Henry Hope Crealock in 1874, is consi…

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