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Lot 168

A rare Meissen silver-gilt-mounted teapot from the 'Gelber Löwe' service for the Saxon/Polish court, circa 1770

7 December 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A rare Meissen silver-gilt-mounted teapot from the 'Gelber Löwe' service for the Saxon/Polish court, circa 1770

Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, of ribbed spherical form with a scroll handle, painted in Kakiemon style with a tiger curling around bamboo opposite flowering chrysanthemums and bamboo, the reverse with similar flowers issuing from a tree-trunk, the cover modelled with a Saxon Electoral crown (Kurhut) and painted with flower sprigs, the mount chased with flowers, 14.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised line (spout restored)

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Provenance:
E.A. Titgemeyer Collection, Osnabrück

A similar teapot was in the Siegfried Salz Collection, Berlin, sold by Cassirer & Helbing, 26-27 March 1929, lot 209, and an unmounted example is in the Decorative Arts Museum in Prague (published by Ulrich Pietsch / Claudia Banz, Triumph der blauen Schwerter (2010), no. 475. A baluster-shaped milk jug with a similar cover and decoration and similar silver mount in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin (Pietsch / Banz, op. cit., no. 474), is marked with a crossed swords mark and dot, which suggests that all these pieces are additions to the Saxon court service dating to the late 1760s or early 1770s based on earlier Baroque forms (the dot has been erased by an incised line on the present lot).

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