teapot

Summary

Public: Globular teapot with crabstock handle and cylindrical spout, white salt-glazed stoneware, with applied relief portrait of Frederick the Great and Flying Eagle and Shield painted in overglaze enamels, against painted ermine ground. Private: Globular teapot on flat circular foot, with crabstock handle, tapering cylindrical cannon spout, and slight collar to neck. Body painted in black, turquoise-blue, pink, green and yellow overglaze enamels with shaped cartouche to left of handle, containing applied relief half-length right side profile portrait of Frederick the Great of Prussia, dressed in pink against turquoise-blue ground. Pink border to cartouche, with inscription 'Fred Prussiae Rex' across the top in black. Opposite side painted with shaped cartouche with pink border, containing heraldic trophy of crowned black Prussian Eagle with wings outstretched, above pink shield and scroll inscribed 'Semper Sublimis', against turquoise-blue ground. Main body of teapot including base and flattened circular cover, painted with 'ermine' ground of rows of three pointed darts and spots in black. Handle, spout and crabstock loop handle to cover all painted with uneven black enamel lines. Small hole pierced in centre of cover.