CIRCA 1710

Details

A BÖTTGER RED STONEWARE MINIATURE TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1710
Of globular form with fluted domed cover and mask spout terminal, the partially polished body molded at the shoulder with a band of lambrequins
3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) high, overall

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Bonham's, London, 1 November 1994, lot 181.

Literature

Lars Tharp, "Wise Man's Gold", Antique Collecting, December 1995/January 1996, p. 9.

Lot Essay

For a teapot of the same form in the State Porcelain Collection, Dresden (Inv. no. P.E.784), see D. Syndram and U. Weinhold, ed., Böttger Stoneware, Johann Friedrich Böttger and Treasury Art, Dresden, 2009, p. 114, ill. 43.

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