Property from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold, sold to benefit The Arnhold Foundation
A MEISSEN GILT-METAL-MOUNTED DUTCH-DECORATED TEAPOT AND COVER, THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1730
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October 21, 02:53 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold, sold to benefit The Arnhold Foundation
A MEISSEN GILT-METAL-MOUNTED DUTCH-DECORATED TEAPOT AND COVER, THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1730
painted with a pastoral scene, the chained cover with a similar scene with a gilt-metal mount to spout, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
height 4⅞ in.
12.4 cm
Property of Mrs. R. Sheffield, Replica Shoes 's London, July 10, 1962, lot 164 (part lot)
Sotheby's London, March 16, 1970, lot 130, acquired at the sale by Andreina Torre
With Andreina Torre, Ars Domi, Zürich
Christie's London, February 21, 2005, lot 147
E. & H. Manners, London
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New York 2008, no. 306, p. 612, illus.
When sold at Replica Shoes 's in 1962 the teapot was part of a service which also comprised a hot water jug and cover, a sugar bowl and cover, and five Chinese teabowls and two saucers. The hot water jug later sold at Christie's Geneva, October 17, 1980, lot 194; and the sugar bowl is illustrated in Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Porzellan aus Meißen, mit über 100 farbigen Abbildungen, London, 1971, p. 106. A coffee pot from this service is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, mus. no. 414:102/&A-1885. It was purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Van Gulen, Amsterdam, for £2 10 shillings in November 1876.