teapot & stand
Summary
Public: Teapot and stand, hard paste porcelain, teapot with with branch and floral form with oval tray decorated with chickens in enamel colours and gilt rims. Private: Teapot and stand, hard paste porcelain. Globualr teapot with curved handle and spout moulded too imitate branches, with applied floral terminals, the knop to the lid formed as a flower bud. Shaped oval tray. Painted in sea green, blue, pink, yellow enamel colours, the main scenes, in monochrome red-brown, depicting a cock and hens. Further decorations of insects. Rims gilt.
Object Name
teapot & stand
Creators Name
Date Created
1765 - 1770
Dimensions
teapot: 10.8cm x 16.2cm
tray: 3.3cm x 17.7cm
accession number
1917.382/3
Collection Group
Place of creation
Meissen
Medium
Credit
Leicester Collier Bequest
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