A Meissen porcelain chinoiserie teapot and cover, circa 1730
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June 25, 11:46 AM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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500 EUR
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Description
of globular form with a straight spout, painted, in the manner of J.E. Stadler, with two chinoiserie figures in fighting pose, each holding a weapon and a parasol, upon an underglaze-blue branch enriched with gilding and issuing enamelled indianische Blumen, the reverse with a branch of indianische Blumen, the cover with further flower-sprays and an insect within a border of blue-edged iron-red and gilt flowerheads, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, painter’s mark to footrim, incised Dreher’s mark of an X
Height 4 ½ in; 10,7 cm
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 14 March 1967, lot 77;
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 4 June 2013, lot 20.
A teapot painted in this manner and bearing the same painter’s mark in underglaze-blue was sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 26 October 1988, lot 26, and a further teapot is illustrated in Hans Syz J. Jefferson Miller II and Rainer Rückert, Catalogue of The Hans Syz Collection, Washington, 1979, Vol. I, p. 91, cat. no. 46.
