A Meissen teapot and cover, circa 1725

painted in the manner of Johann Gregorius Höroldt, on each side with a scene of chinoiserie figures within a quatrefoil cartouche filled with Böttger lustre picked out in gilding, embellished with scroll work in iron-red and purple flanked by sprigs of indianische Blumen and winged insects, of compressed pear form with a scroll handle and spout embellished with iron-red cross hatching and gilding, the domed cover with a continuous scene of chinoiserie figures above iron-red concentric lines, gilt rim and finial, crossed swords mark in blue enamel, gilt numeral 95. to both,

Ulrich Pietsch, Preziosen, einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung, 2001, pp. 28-29

The cover with some wear to the gilding on the rim and finial, but otherwise in very good condition.
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Two examples of this form with decoration in the manner of Höroldt are in the Carabelli collection (published by Ulrich Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellan: Sammlung Carabelli, 2000, nos. 33, 42); a third example with similar unusual iron-red cross hatching to the spout was sold at Sotheby's London, 28th November 1967, lot 172.