A BÖTTGER TEAPOT AND COVER

CIRCA 1715

Details

A BÖTTGER TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1715
Of squat bombé form modelled by J.J. Irminger, each side moulded with a bouquet of coloured flowers including roses, the curved spout issuing from a mask terminal with incised horns, flowing hair and an open mouth, below a moulded border moulded with pendant blue and red lambrequins and yellow and red tassels, the loop handle with foliate terminals, the domed cover moulded with three coloured flower-sprays below a knop finial (teapot with majority of footrim and tip of spout lacking, rim with chipping and interior ground, surface with blemishes and very slight wear to enamels, cover with chip to tip of finial and flaking to green enamel)
4 5/8 in. (11. 8 cm.) high

Provenance

Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection
Their daughter, Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr.

Literature

Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 32, no. 16.

Lot Essay

Teapot and cover each with Otto Blohm Collection label no. 1315., teapot with two labels with number 341.

For a white example of this form of teapot, see 'Johann Friedrich Böttger zu Ehren, Meissen Frühzeit und Gegenwart' Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden and VEB Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, Meissen Exhibition Catalogue (Dresden, 1982), pl. 1 171.

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