CIRCA 1745, TEAPOT WITH TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 27, GILDER'S Z. MARK TO BOTH

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A MEISSEN YELLOW-GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1745, TEAPOT WITH TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 27, GILDER'S Z. MARK TO BOTH
Of bullet-shaped form and quatrefoil section, the lozenge-section hooked scroll handle with gilt husks, the tapering spout with gilt husks, coloured flower-sprays and a stylised gilt flower, the body with gilt borders of scrolling foliage and scale ornament dividing two yellow-ground panels with flower-sprays and two panels of figures in landscapes after Watteau, the domed cover similarly decorated below a gilt knop finial (teapot with minute frit to tip of spout, very slight chipping to underside of footrim, very slight sanding near rim)
5 in. (12.8 cm.) high

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

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Lot Essay

This teapot and the following lot are possibly from the same service as a teacaddy and a pair of teacups and saucers sold in these Rooms on 21st February 2005, lots 87 and 88. For another teapot of similar form and decoration (but with a gilt spout) in the Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida, see 'The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain' Catalogue (1984), p. 164, no. 279.

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