Early Tea Pot with Chinese Scenes.
Meissen. Circa 1720. Painted decor Meissen or home painting; circa 1725.

B鰐tger porcelain; enriched in colours and gilt. Ball shape on low base with pipe handles and short nozzle. The flat arched lid has a cone finial; above a chain with handles attached. Along the shoulder is a gilt tendril border. On the sides of the pot above two red ring lines are islands; which are flanked by an earchquake. Upon which are shrubs with leaves and various flowers; mainly in iron red and heightened with gold. One central large figure of a Chinese couple with a document presented with a single Chinese censer. Below the nozzle is large gilt ornament; presumably monogrammed HI or CIC lig. Height 12;5cm. Condition B. Lid finial is metal addition.
No recognisable marks.

Provenance:
Bethke collection; Dresden.

Literature:
- Beaucamp-Markowsky; Barbara: Europ鋓sches Porzellan; Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt K鰈n;
K鰈n 1980; S.89-93; Kat-Nr.20.
- Ducret; Siegfried (1): Deutsches Porzellan und deute Fayencen; Baden-Baden 1962; S.280;
Nr.109.
- Ducret; Siegfried (2): Johann Philipp Dannh鰂er oder Christian Daniel Busch?; in:
Keramos; Heft 17; 1962; S.19-26.
- Ducret; Siegfried: Keramik und Graphik des 18. Jahrhunderts; Braunschweig 1973.
- Foster Davson; Kate: Ein bezeichneter Schokoladenbecher - Malersignatur oder Widmung?
Zur Frage Lauche; Dannh鰂er; Bayreuther Chinoiserien; in: Keramos; Heft 136; 1992; S.6-8.
Art trade; Van Ham.