A RARE MEISSEN BOTTGERSTEINZEUG GOLDMOUNTED OVIFORM PEDESTAL TEAPOT WITH COVER, inspired by Yi H'sing redware, the dark-red-brown ground cut and carved with Kugelschliff und Schnittdekor in the manner of Bohemian glass engravers (Dekor in der Art böhmischer Glasschnitte) to both sides with a scrolled canopy hung with lappets and draped curtains surmounted by a perched bird and upheld by winged cherubs, surrounding an oval hatched cartouche depicting a wreathed cameo profile à l'antique above tied laurel branches, the sides with Bèrainesque scrollwork and dotted bands (Punktmuster); to the edge, the spout, the cover and the pedestal base, with a small spout, loop handle, on stepped circular pedestal foot, the small domed cover en suite with tiny dice finial, the mounted handle connected to the finial and to the spout with a ring chain, the spout mounted with a dentiled sheath and a tiny heart-shaped cover with scrolled double thumbpiece (tiny chips) the gold mounts and the Steinzeug, circa 1710-1712

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A RARE MEISSEN BOTTGERSTEINZEUG GOLDMOUNTED OVIFORM PEDESTAL TEAPOT WITH COVER, inspired by Yi H'sing redware, the dark-red-brown ground cut and carved with Kugelschliff und Schnittdekor in the manner of Bohemian glass engravers (Dekor in der Art böhmischer Glasschnitte) to both sides with a scrolled canopy hung with lappets and draped curtains surmounted by a perched bird and upheld by winged cherubs, surrounding an oval hatched cartouche depicting a wreathed cameo profile à l'antique above tied laurel branches, the sides with Bèrainesque scrollwork and dotted bands (Punktmuster); to the edge, the spout, the cover and the pedestal base, with a small spout, loop handle, on stepped circular pedestal foot, the small domed cover en suite with tiny dice finial, the mounted handle connected to the finial and to the spout with a ring chain, the spout mounted with a dentiled sheath and a tiny heart-shaped cover with scrolled double thumbpiece (tiny chips) the gold mounts and the Steinzeug, circa 1710-1712
circa 12 cm high

Lot Essay

cf. - R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Katalog der Ausstellung im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum München, 1966, p. 12-13 for a discussion on the Bohemian engravers - I. Menzhausen, Böttgersteinzeug aus der Dresdner Porzellansammlung, 1969 p. 16 for a discussion on the date - W. Goder, K. Hoffmann, I. Menzhausen, etc., J.F.Böttger, die Erfindung des Europäischen Porzellans, ill. 86 for a teapot with a very similar Bérainesque decoration.

This shape unrecorded in literature.

Several Bohemian glass engravers worked in Meissen and Dresden in October 1710. During the Ostermesse (Easter fair) held in may 1710, in Leipzig, these glass-engravers cut and carved; all the bérainesque decoration, monograms, coat-of-arms etc., on the client's demand, on Böttgersteinzeug. In 1712 ten glass-engravers worked in Bohemia for Meissen.

The difficult and expensive technique of Schliff und Schnittdekor was discontinued by 1714-1715, due to the discovery of Böttgerporzellan which ruined the demand for Böttgersteinzeug.

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