Lot Essay
Teapot with collection label no. 400.
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CIRCA 1730
Details
A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) MINIATURE TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1730
Of squat globular form, with a loop handle, each side painted with scattered specimen flower-sprays including two pink roses and an iris between silvered line borders at the rim and footrim, the very slightly scrolling spout with silver dots and pendant red husks, the loop handle with silver line terminals, the domed cover with further flowers below a silvered knop finial, within a silver line border (cover with small chip to underside edge of rim, teapot with wear to area of silvered decoration on handle)
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high
CIRCA 1730
Of squat globular form, with a loop handle, each side painted with scattered specimen flower-sprays including two pink roses and an iris between silvered line borders at the rim and footrim, the very slightly scrolling spout with silver dots and pendant red husks, the loop handle with silver line terminals, the domed cover with further flowers below a silvered knop finial, within a silver line border (cover with small chip to underside edge of rim, teapot with wear to area of silvered decoration on handle)
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high
Provenance
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection
Their daughter, Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr.
Their daughter, Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr.
Literature
Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), col. pl. 21, no. 69.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.