CIRCA 1735, FAINT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S MARK OF THREE CIRCLES FOR SEIDEL

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A MEISSEN POWDERED-PINK-GROUND KAKIEMON QUATREFOIL TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1735, FAINT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S MARK OF THREE CIRCLES FOR SEIDEL
One side painted with a bird beside flowering peony issuing from rockwork, the other with a bird perched on bamboo beside flowering peony within purple line ogival panels, the ground reserved with a bird on a flowering plant, birds and insects in flight and a flowering plant, the scroll handle and short curved spout with indianische Blumen, the quatrefoil domed cover similarly decorated below a bud finial, brown line rim (shallow chip to edge of rim and underside of cover, very minor rubbing to tip of spout)
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 12th November 1984, lot 137
With Reichert, from whom it was acquired in July 1986.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

For another teapot of this rare form, see Masako Shono, Japanisches Aritaporzellan im sogenannten 'Kakiemonstil' als Vorbild für die Meissener Porzellanmanufaktur (Munich, 1973), no. 74, and also Erik Lassen, 'Davids Samling Meissen Porcelaen' Catalogue (Copenhagen, 1985), p. 181, no. 74.

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