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Teapot and cover
Teapot, hard-paste porcelain, rounded foot-rim, bulbous ogee body, short curving spout with foliate moulding around the base, double intertwined handle with spreading leaves at the terminals, round domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a flower head with stem and leaves; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to either side of the exterior body a riverside landscape with figures and buildings, two smaller landscapes to the top of the cover, the spout and handle picked out in gilt with a floral sprig to the underside of the spout, gilt lines around the lip-rim of the teapot and the rim of the cover, the finial picked out in puce, yellow and green.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35742
Creation/Production
Berlin State Factory
Date: 1775-1780
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 8.5
diam
(cm): 7.8
Width
(cm): 13.8
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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