A rare Meissen porcelain teapot with a Watteau scene

A rare Meissen porcelain teapot with a Watteau scene

Compressed rounded form with short spout issuing from a mascaron. Original lid with disc finial. Painted with two Watteauesque comedy scenes en grisaille. Unmarked. The spout with an older restoration, the rim of the lid and basal ring with chips, scratches. H 12.5 cm.
The porcelain Meissen, c. 1723, decor attributed to Bartholomäus Seuter, c. 1735 - 40.

Provenance

Collection of Georg Tillmann, Hamburg, auctioned by Sotheby´s New York on 22nd April 1982.

Literature

Illus. in: Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler, Stuttgart 1971, vol. 1, p. 123, illus. 97.
Cf. a similar teapot in the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart (inv. no. G 13,176) in: Weinhold, Emailmalerei an Augsburger Goldschmiedearbeiten von 1650 - 1750, Munich-Berlin 2000, no. 145.
Cf. another teapot with silver decor formerly in the Arnhold Collection (in: Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710 - 50, London 2008, no. 271).