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vintage ceramic teapot featuring a hand-painted blue bird or rooster motif with floral accents and a yellow fruit-shaped lid finial. The teapot is part of the Simpsons Potters "Belle Fiore" Chanticleer Ware pattern produced by Simpsons (Potters) Ltd in Staffordshire, England.This specific line is historically significant and highly recognizable due to its distinct construction and design details: "Belle Fiore" (which translates to beautiful flower in Italian) was a bold, freehand underglaze design. The sculpted yellow lemon handle/knob with green leaves on the lid is a defining signature of the teapots from this exact Simpsons Potters Belle Fiore pattern. The pattern was first advertised in 1940 and remained highly popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Production of this tableware series completely ceased in 1976 when the factory ended its