P071 - MEISSEN TEA POT AND A COVER

 

Circa 1730-1735, blue crossed swords mark and gilt 55.

Finely painted with harbor views within gilt and purple lustre cartouches, the spout with mask terminal

(Cover matched, some wear to gilding)

7 in. (17.8 cm) wide Height: 5-1/2 inches

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, pp. 170-171, fig. 67.

 

See P064 for a sugar-box also with gilder’s 55.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the Scott-Allen Collection at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia from 1976 until 1996

 

On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” at The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art between June 1955 and May 1960

 

NOTES BY CLEO M. AND G. RYLAND SCOTT, JR in the late 1950’s

This was a part of the Friedberg Collection purchased in 1953.