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A Böttger red stoneware hexagonal tea-caddy and a gilt-metal cover

CIRCA 1715

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A Böttger red stoneware hexagonal tea-caddy and a gilt-metal cover
Circa 1715
Each panel moulded in low relief with birds of paradise perched or flying among flowering branches issuing from rockwork within polished angles (four corners of footrim chipped, black decoration to panels rubbed)
4¾in. (12.2cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

For a similar example see Willi Goder et al., Johann Friedrich Böttger, no. 63

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