What Weller Pattern Is This?

This item is up on EBay
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2038360375...d=5338849075&customid=5338849075&toolid=10049

The description says "Weller Pottery Teapot Shape 650 Bird Finial Pumpkin" so I take it that the shape is #650 but what's the pattern? I can't find it in Warman's guide or Google Lens. Thanks for your help!

 

Its a pattern called Terose and the finial is a rabbit! It's in "All about Weller" (Macdonald) page 163. From 1933 designed by Dorothy Laughead.

 

Sure looks like a bird to me

 

Or perhaps, a baby dragon.

 

This is the same, but no name.
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/89740666_weller-pumpkin-teapot

(parrot finial)

 

That one doesn't look the same to me. Different lobes and handle shapes, not to mention the finial differences.

 

Sure looks like a bird to me tooo!!

 

Here's a partial image from the Macdonald book. I can look through my other Weller books to see if its covered elsewhere. It was the Art-Deco period, so maybe it was considered a "stylized" image.

Whenever I hear the work stylized it makes me think they drew it anyway they felt like it drawing it



PS its also pictured in the Huxford Weller book on page 356 and 369, looks like it's shape 650.

 

That link led me to a broken image page. This is the photo that took me there. I'm guessing this is not the image seen. Oops.

 

You're correct. It was this one. Glad to hear you aren't losing it!

 

There's even one on worthpoint described as a fish....

 

Fantasy bird? I was going to say it looks like a cockatoo, but that tail would be all wrong.