Lot Essay
A similar example was sold by Sotheby's London on 14th February 1978, lot 172. A Böttger white porcelain ewer of similar form, but with a Frauenkopf handle, is illustrated by Willi Goder et al., Johann Friedrich Böttger (Leipzig, 1982), pls. 191-192, where it notes that the form was designed by the Court Silversmith Johann Jacob Irminger.