Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Teapot
Busch, Canon August Otto Ernst von dem (of Hildesheim, 1704-1779.
Busch was an amateur Hausmaler.)
Teapot and cover, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a flat base, baluster body, wishbone handle with thumb piece, moulded up-curved spout with moulded leaf decoration, slightly domed cover with bud finial; body and cover decorated with incised, blackened lines, on one side with a tree stump with two sprouting branches, bird in flight above, opposite a tree stump with two sprouting branches, a bird swooping down onto a branch and an insect to the left, plant with flowers under spout, cover decorated with two insects opposite each other.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33265
Creation/Production
Meissen
Busch, Canon August Otto Ernst von dem
Date: 1746 ca –
Acquisition
Gift, 16/12/1919
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 11.3
Length
(cm): 17.4
Width
(cm): 10.1
Height
(in): 4
Length
(in): 6
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
moulded
forming
Applied Art
diamond engraved
engraved
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
Front Hall, North Balcony : Case C
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