A MEISSEN (K.P.M.) SCHWARZLOT TEAPOT AND COVER of squat baluster form, the curved spout with male-mask terminal and with loop handle, painted in the manner of Bonaventura Gottlieb Häuer with figures in a river landscape and a harbour scene within quatrefoil shaped panels with puce and gilt foliage and scrolls and Böttger lustre panels, the ground with scattered insects in puce below a band of gilt interlocking scrollwork, the spout, handle and cover with puce indianische Blumen (slight bruise to nose of mask, slight chips to footrim and inside rim of cover), blue K.P.M. and crossed swords mark, gilder's 29.to base and cover, circa 1723