A rare Meissen Böttger porcelain Dutch-decorated teapot and cover, circa 1713

of globular form painted in thickly applied enamels with winged insects above flowering peonies and prunus, the cover with a similar flowering branch and insect, minor chips and haircrack.

Acquired from George Haggarty, Scotland, February 1998

There are two chips to the rim of the cover and some nibbling chips to the flange. There is a flat shallow chip to the rim of the teapot, and a chip to the tip of the spout with a resulting hairline crack measuring approximately 1.1 cm. long.
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A slightly later Meissen teapot with a serpent spout and scroll handle with very similar Dutch decoration of flowering peonies and prunus, was in The Delphinium Collection, sold at Bonham's, London, 20th March 2013, lot 13.