Beschreibung:

A rare Meissen teapot and cover, circa 1735 Of five-petal blossom shape with brown-edged rim, one side applied with a polychrome moulded flowering branch issuing from the brown branch handle and terminating on the brown branch-shaped spout, the reverse painted in Kakiemon style with wheat sheaves and flower sprigs, the cover with similar sprigs and applied with a further branch handle terminating in a purple and iron-red blossom at each end, 10cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark (2) Fußnoten Provenance: J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York; The Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke Collection, Baltimore, Maryland, sold Sotheby's New York, 26 September 1989, lot 11; With Brian Haughton, London Exhibited: Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 30 March 1964 - 2 October 1969 For the impressed Dreher's mark - possibly that of Johann George Möbius - see R. Rückert, Alchemistische Symbolzeichen..., in Keramos 151 (1996), ill. 9, nos. 7 and 8.