AN EARLY MEISSEN PORCELAIN SMALL GILT-WHITE TEAPOT AND COVER
AN EARLY MEISSEN PORCELAIN SMALL GILT-WHITE TEAPOT AND COVER

CIRCA 1725, TRACES OF LUSTRED INITIALS TO POT AND COVER, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION ALMOST CONTEMPORARY AND LIKELY BY THE SEUTER WORKSHOP

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AN EARLY MEISSEN PORCELAIN SMALL GILT-WHITE TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1725, TRACES OF LUSTRED INITIALS TO POT AND COVER, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION ALMOST CONTEMPORARY AND LIKELY BY THE SEUTER WORKSHOP
With richly-gilt wishbone handle and facetted spout, the cover with acorn finial, the sides with vignettes of figures fishing or standing before ruins and a farm house in a landscape
4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Bequest of Frances Oliver, 1972.
Literature
G. Andrews & L. Cole, Porcelain from the Frances Oliver Collection, Alabama, 1980, p. 27.

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