CIRCA 1730, DREHER'S CROSS AND FOUR DOTS MARK

Details

A MEISSEN KAKIEMON TEAPOT AND A COVER
CIRCA 1730, DREHER'S CROSS AND FOUR DOTS MARK
The body, tapering spout and loop handle each of octagonal section, painted in turquoise, blue, iron-red, purple, yellow and black and enriched in gilding, each side with large flowering branches of prunus, chrysanthemum and other flowers, a pheonix in flight below the spout, the spout and handle with flower-sprays, the circular cover with eight facets and similarly decorated with a pheonix, two insects and flowers around a faceted, pointed bud finial, within a brown line rim (small chip to tip of spout and tip of finial, teapot with hairline crack to centre of one side of body)
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm.) high (2)

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. 19.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Cover with Otto Blohm Collection label no. 743, underside of teapot inscribed in black ink O.B. 743. and attached with label no. 311.

For a teapot and cover with a similar pattern, see the example sold in these Rooms on 8th July 2002, lot 70.

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