A MEISSEN SATIRICAL TEAPOT AND COVER
Lot 172

A MEISSEN SATIRICAL TEAPOT AND COVER

CIRCA 1760, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Closed7 June 2011

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GBP 1,875

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A MEISSEN SATIRICAL TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1760, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Of bullet shape with a wishbone handle, one side painted with a dog and a rabbit, the other side with exotic birds, each in landscape vignettes enclosed by pendant garlands and scrolling trellis supporting puce scale panels edged with rococo scrolls on the shoulder, the shallow domed cover with a bud finial
4½ in. (11.5 cm.) high (2)

With Charles Bernstein, Oakland, California, 1986

Specialist note

For a satirical cup and saucer with similar decoration, see Rainer Rckert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 171, no. 738.