A MEISSEN ARMORIAL BULLET-SHAPED TEAPOT AND COVER, one side painted with the Arms of Tommaso Lambertini, the other with Venetian palaces and figures promenading before a canal, within elaborate iron-red, puce and gilt diaper panels, interlocking foliage and scrolls inset with an oval panel painted in puce camaieu with a landscape, the bird's head spout and wishbone handle moulded with acanthus leaves, scales and a shell and enriched in gilt, the shoulders and rim to the cover with interlocking gilt scrolls and flowerheads, the cover with gilt pine-cone finial (very minor rubbing to one scroll on shoulder), blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummer I?, circa 1748

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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL BULLET-SHAPED TEAPOT AND COVER, one side painted with the Arms of Tommaso Lambertini, the other with Venetian palaces and figures promenading before a canal, within elaborate iron-red, puce and gilt diaper panels, interlocking foliage and scrolls inset with an oval panel painted in puce camaieu with a landscape, the bird's head spout and wishbone handle moulded with acanthus leaves, scales and a shell and enriched in gilt, the shoulders and rim to the cover with interlocking gilt scrolls and flowerheads, the cover with gilt pine-cone finial (very minor rubbing to one scroll on shoulder), blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummer I?, circa 1748
9cm. high

Provenance

Anon., sale, Christie's London, 2 December 1974, lot 145

Lot Essay

Tommaso Lambertini, Pope Benedict XIV, was elected in 1740 and died in 1758. He was given this service by Augustus III in recognition of his help with the building of the Neukirche in Dresden

The Venetian scene also occurs on a plate in the Christie-Miller service and is taken from the engraving Arriva za Neapoli ala Piazza di Spagna by Melchior Küssell

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