A Meissen Hausmaler teapot and cover, circa 1720-30. Photo Bonhams

The bullet-shaped body with a scroll handle and curved spout, decorated in Augsburg, in the workshop of Abraham Seuter, in gilding with chinoiserie scenes on scrollwork pedestals below a scrollwork border to the rim, the handle and spout heightened in gilding, the cover with bird vignettes and a similar border, 12cm high (typical minor wear to gilding) (2). Estimate: £7,000 - 9,000 / €8,500 - 11,000 / US$ 11,000 - 14,000

Provenance: C. Heuer, Frankfurt a.M. (by 1971);
Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 8 May 1989, lot 33

Literature: Siegfried Ducret, Meissener Porzellan (1971), vol. I, p. 141, pl. 113

Bonhams. 23 May 2012 10:30 a.m. London, New Bond Street. Fine Meissen Porcelain from a Private Collection