A green-glazed creamware teapot and cover dated 1794, the ovoid body lightly impressed with horizontal bands, bearing a gilt inscription for ~Eleanor Smith Wetheral 1794~, the reverse with a gilded flower spray, 21.5cm across. (2)A note inside the teapot records it as being a wedding present to the great-great-grandmother of a Mrs J Hawks, having passed down the family for many generations, and that Eleanor Smith became Nicholson. Parish records show an Eleanor Smith marrying William Nicholson on 10th October 1802 in Wetheral, Cumbria, and giving birth to a son named John the following year.