A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted teapot and cover, circa 1725

Each side finely painted in enamels, gilding and lustre with a chinoiserie scene depicting two figures flanked by flowers and vessels containing objects, within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and embellished with iron-red and purple scrollwork,the handle and spout flanked by insects and flower sprigs, a gilt scroll- and strapwork border below the rim, the domed cover with a hinged mount, decorated with two similar chinoiserie vignettes, the spout with a hinged cover, the footrim with a silver-gilt mount, 12cm high, crossed swords mark and K.P.M. in underglaze-blue,

Provenance:
Private Collection, Germany (sold at Sotheby's Zurich, 1 June 1994, lot 99);
The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen Porcelain

Literature:
M. Newman, Die deutschen Porzellanmanufakturen, I (1977), ill. 8;
U. Pietsch/K. Jakobsen, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1997), no. 179

Exhibited:
Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 19 January-6 April 1997;
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Albertinum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 7 May-12 July 1997