Teapot
Meissen (German), ca. 1715
Painting attributed to a Dutch hausmaler, ca. 1730-40
Hard-paste porcelain with enamels and gilding
 4 7/8 in. H (12.5 cm H)
An early Meissen porcelain teapot made circa 1715, decorated by a Dutch hausmaler circa 1730-1740. The teapot is decorated in a Kakiemon palette of turquoise, red, blue and yellow and enriched with gilding. The short, tapering spout and loop handle has flowerheads and stylised clouds. Each side of the body features exotic birds in flight to the left of flowering branches. There are beautifully painted flower-sprays throughout. The domed cover shows three small flowering branches about a band of radiating down-turned stiff leaves and red and gilt bud finial.
An early Meissen porcelain teapot made circa 1715, decorated by a Dutch hausmaler circa 1730-1740. The teapot is decorated in a Kakiemon palette of turquoise, red, blue and yellow and enriched with gilding. The short, tapering spout and loop handle has flowerheads and stylised clouds. Each side of the body features exotic birds in flight to the left of flowering branches. There are beautifully painted flower-sprays throughout. The domed cover shows three small flowering branches about a band of radiating down-turned stiff leaves and red and gilt bud finial.
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Condition
Excellent. Minute chip to underside of spout measuring approximately 0.1 cm. Two chips to lid edge measuring 0.5 cm each.
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Provenance
Sotheby’s
Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
Christie’s London, 8 July 2002, lot 46
Galerie Jürg Stuker, Berne, November 1974, lot 3557
Literature
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New York 2008, no. 304, p. 610, illus.
Excellent. Minute chip to underside of spout measuring approximately 0.1 cm. Two chips to lid edge measuring 0.5 cm each.
For a detailed condition report, please contact us.
Sotheby’s
Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
Christie’s London, 8 July 2002, lot 46
Galerie Jürg Stuker, Berne, November 1974, lot 3557
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New York 2008, no. 304, p. 610, illus.
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