A MEISSEN KAKIEMON BULLET-SHAPED TEAPOT AND COVER with bird's head moulded spout and wishbone handle, painted with stylised flowering shrubs with purple and iron-red flowers and contorted brown branches, the cover with iron-red cone finial, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 3, circa 1740 | Christie's

Lot 27

A MEISSEN KAKIEMON BULLET-SHAPED TEAPOT AND COVER with bird's head moulded spout and wishbone handle, painted with stylised flowering shrubs with purple and iron-red flowers and contorted brown branches, the cover with iron-red cone finial, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 3, circa 1740

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A MEISSEN KAKIEMON BULLET-SHAPED TEAPOT AND COVER with bird's head moulded spout and wishbone handle, painted with stylised flowering shrubs with purple and iron-red flowers and contorted brown branches, the cover with iron-red cone finial, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 3, circa 1740
9.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Hans Syz, J. Jefferson Miller II, Rainer Rückert, op.cit., vol. I, no. 100 for a similar coffee and tea-service

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