
Sebastian Kuhn
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Provenance:
The collection of the Freiherren von Ketteler, Schloss Schwarzenraben;
Private Collection, Germany
Literature:
U. Pietsch/K. Jacobsen, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1997), no. 158;
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 57
Exhibited:
Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, Frühes Meissener Porzellan, 19 January to 6 April 1997;
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen - Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Frühes Meissener Porzellan, 7 May to 13 July 1997
This grotesque teapot form is based on an engraving by Jacques Stella published in Livre des Vases (1667). The model is first mentioned at the Meissen factory in 1719, and may have been modelled by the Dresden court goldsmith, Johann Jacob Irminger, or the former George Fritzsche. A similarly decorated example was in the collection of Baron von Born, Budapest, sold by Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 4 December 1929, lot 130.
There has been some damage and restoration to the cover and to the spout.