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Meissen
(Germany 1710– )
- Title
- Teapot and cover
- Year
- circa 1715-1720
circa 1720-1730 - Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain ('Böttger porcelain)
- Dimensions
-
pot 10 x 15.3 x 10.5 cm; lid 3.4 x 6.7 x 6.7 cm combined height 12.1 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2010.187.a-b
- Location
- 15th–19th c European art
- Further information
The body is of the distinctive Böttger paste in use before c1725. The gilded chinoiserie decoration with engraved detailing is later and is of the type applied to Meissen blanks in the Augsburg workshop of Bartholomaüs Seuter. The motifs comprise Chinese figures conversing, smoking and preparing or consuming beverages. Under the spout is a diving crane. The significance of the mark is not known.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 16 (colour illus.). cat.no. 3
