CIRCA 1723
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A Meissen (K.P.M.) chinoiserie teapot and a cover
Circa 1723
Of baluster form with C-scroll handle and grotesque mask-head spout, painted with an Oriental man and child before a steaming kettle and with similar figures before a bowl of flowers, among flowering shrubs on terraces within quatrefoil cartouches with Böttger lustre panels and gilt, iron-red and purple Laub-und-Bandelwerk flanked by scattered insects and indianische Blumen, the shoulders with a band of gilt scrollwork, the associated cover with three groups of Orientals on terraces and with gilt ball finial (footrim chips and restored chip to rim of cover), blue K.P.M. above crossed sowrds mark, gilder's 100.
6½in. (16.5cm.) wide (2)
Circa 1723
Of baluster form with C-scroll handle and grotesque mask-head spout, painted with an Oriental man and child before a steaming kettle and with similar figures before a bowl of flowers, among flowering shrubs on terraces within quatrefoil cartouches with Böttger lustre panels and gilt, iron-red and purple Laub-und-Bandelwerk flanked by scattered insects and indianische Blumen, the shoulders with a band of gilt scrollwork, the associated cover with three groups of Orientals on terraces and with gilt ball finial (footrim chips and restored chip to rim of cover), blue K.P.M. above crossed sowrds mark, gilder's 100.
6½in. (16.5cm.) wide (2)