Lot Essay
The painting on the contemporary cover is perhaps by a different hand.
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1723, BLUE K.P.M. MARK
Details
A Meissen (K.P.M.) teapot and cover
1723, blue K.P.M. mark
Of squat baluster form, the curved spout with male-mask terminal, the loop handle with incised foliage terminals and both with indianische Blumen, painted in the manner of J.G. Hroldt with an Oriental family playing with two children by a table and with Orientals gesturing towards a flock of birds and catching a bird falling from a tree beneath a cloudy sky within iron-red and gilt Bttger lustre panelled cartouches flanked by scattered insects, the domed cover with Orientals and shrubs between gilt band rims and with gilt ball finial (chips and rubbing to tip of spout, slight rubbing to gilt rim and to edge of cover, some minor scratching to enamels)
5 in. (12.5 cm.) high overall
1723, blue K.P.M. mark
Of squat baluster form, the curved spout with male-mask terminal, the loop handle with incised foliage terminals and both with indianische Blumen, painted in the manner of J.G. Hroldt with an Oriental family playing with two children by a table and with Orientals gesturing towards a flock of birds and catching a bird falling from a tree beneath a cloudy sky within iron-red and gilt Bttger lustre panelled cartouches flanked by scattered insects, the domed cover with Orientals and shrubs between gilt band rims and with gilt ball finial (chips and rubbing to tip of spout, slight rubbing to gilt rim and to edge of cover, some minor scratching to enamels)
5 in. (12.5 cm.) high overall