Teapot
ca. 1760 (made)
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Teapot and cover of hard-paste porcelain. Squat inverted pear shape. Grotesque bird spout. Moulded J-handle. Low cover with knob modelled as a blossoming flower and naturalistically coloured. Painted in pale colours with pastoral figures in a rococo cartouche of garden lattice twined with flowers and mossy mounds. Gilt edges. Spout and handles partly gilt.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Teapot and cover, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1760 |
| Physical description | Teapot and cover of hard-paste porcelain. Squat inverted pear shape. Grotesque bird spout. Moulded J-handle. Low cover with knob modelled as a blossoming flower and naturalistically coloured. Painted in pale colours with pastoral figures in a rococo cartouche of garden lattice twined with flowers and mossy mounds. Gilt edges. Spout and handles partly gilt. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Crossed swords (Factory mark, in blue) |
| Object history | From Bandinel Collection. |
| Production | Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Honey, W. B. Dresden china: an introduction to the study of Meissen porcelain. London: A. & C. Black, 1946, Pl. XXIX (a), pp. 94-6 |
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| Accession number | 3440&A-1853 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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