A BÖTTGER GOLDCHINESEN MINIATURE TEAPOT AND COVER of pear shape with gilt spout, handle and finial, gilt at Augsburg in the Seuter workshop with figures taking tea and with a horse and with a horseman and companion holding a parasol among shrubs and trees supported by gilt scrolls, the cover with birds on branches, the cover with gilt metal chain attachment (minute rim chips to cover and rim and slight rubbing), lustre 11 mark, circa 1725
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A BÖTTGER GOLDCHINESEN MINIATURE TEAPOT AND COVER of pear shape with gilt spout, handle and finial, gilt at Augsburg in the Seuter workshop with figures taking tea and with a horse and with a horseman and companion holding a parasol among shrubs and trees supported by gilt scrolls, the cover with birds on branches, the cover with gilt metal chain attachment (minute rim chips to cover and rim and slight rubbing), lustre 11 mark, circa 1725
9cm. high
Lot Essay
Cf. an example sold Sotheby's, 25 May 1982, lot 185 and Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan, Vol. I, no. 172