P073 - MEISSEN TEAPOT AND A COVER

 

Circa 1723, blue script K.P.M. mark

Finely painted with soldiers and huntsmen within gilt, iron-red and Böttger lustre cartouches, the spout with gaping mask terminal, the associated cover in the Tischenmuster pattern

6 ½ in. (16.5 cm) wide Height of Teapot:  3-3/8”

(Tiny minor chips to rim and tip of spout)

 

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961,p. 176-177, fig. 88.

 

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

MEISSEN TEA POT K.P.M.

This Meissen tea pot was purchased from Otto Buel in Lucern in 1957. Here again these pieces had been purchased in 1945 from the collector Schnyder who assisted Mr. Coker in putting together his famous collection now in the Museum at Bern, Switzerland. The tea pot is described as painted by Gregor Herold. In 1725 the factory adopted the mark of K.P.M. and applied it for years 1723 and 1724 only.  In 1725 every piece had to carry the swords mark. Only tea pots and octagonal sugar boxes were ever marked K.P.M., however.

 

Usually pieces like this tea pot are decorated by Herold  himself and with some type of Chinoiserie decoration, where the Chinaman is large in size. Here we have the large size figures after Comte Feriol known as de la Levante. They are as Honey states on page 21 vaguely called "Turks" and are rarer than the Chinoiserie, which were very popu1ar. This tea pot has the masked spout and on one side two Turks are shown with bows and arrows; on the obverse side two Turks, one a sultan and the other with a spear.  The depth of the painting is exceptionally fine with blue clouds tipped with yellow, all enclosed in an isenrot cartouche, with gold and luster.