CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK BELOW TAIL

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A MEISSEN COCKEREL TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK BELOW TAIL
Modelled as a cockerel seated with its head facing its tail, a small spout at the neck, its grey and gilt tail curled around to form a handle, its black head and neck with Sgraffito markings, its wings with yellow, red, black and grey-dotted bars and gilt and brown feathers, its chest and abdomen with dark-brown spots, the aperture on its back edged with gilt scrolls, the circular cover with a monkey finial (chip to tail, chipping to claws, small chip to inner edge of rim, some wear to enamels of tail, areas of further slight wear)
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) long

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.

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Lot Essay

A teapot of similar form, with a recumbent gilt dog or lion finial, is in the Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida. See 'The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain' Catalogue (1984), p. 233, no. 541. Another example with similar feathered gilding on the handle is illustrated by Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Meissen Porcelain in Colour (London, 1971), p. 60. Also see Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 277, no. 1126.

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