Meissen, 18th century Rare teapot and lid, c.... Lot 22

Meissen, 18th century Rare teapot and lid, c. 1735 in porcelain, in the form of a five-petalled flower, with relief and polychrome applied decoration on one side of a molded flowering branch extending from the handle in the form of a brown branch and ending on the spout; the other side with polychrome decoration of flowering hedges and a squirrel, the lid handle in the form of a flowering branch, brown fillet on the edges. Mark: crossed swords in blue. Height 10.2 Width 16 cm. (restoration to the lid grip, a chip at the end of the spout). Provenance: Tarn-et-Garonne collection. Meissen, ca 1735. A rare polychrome porcelain teapot with lid. Two teapots of the same shape are preserved, one in the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, from the McDonald collection, the other in the Albrechtsburg Palace, Dresden. A comparable teapot was in the former Van Slyke collection, Sotheby's, New York, May 20, 1989, lot 49, then Bonhams, London, July 2, 2019, lot 37. A similar teapot was reproduced by Armin Allen, Exhibition of European Pottery and Porcelain, June 8-26, 1987, no. 5.