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A Berlin bullet-shaped teapot and cover
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A Berlin bullet-shaped teapot and cover
with female mask spout, the wishbone handle moulded as a branch issuing leafy branches, painted with a spray of flowers and lesser sprigs within a scroll-moulded panel, the reverse similarly decorated, circa 1765 (chip to spout, chips and restoration to finial) -- 9cm. high See illustration
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.
Lot Essay
Cf. Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, Europäisches Porzellan und Ostasiatisches Exportporzellan Geschirr und Ziergerät (1980), p. 248, pl. 210.