A small collection of 18th century European porcelain offered by Reeman Dansie in Colchester included this Meissen teapot and cover c.1725, writes Roland Arkell.
Baluster form teapots with similar handles and mask spouts were made in Böttger stoneware. This hard paste porcelain vessel is finely painted in polychrome enamels and Böttger lustre with European landscape vignettes and an eagle to the cover. A young Johann Gregorius Höroldt was perhaps the decorator.
The vessel – from the deceased estate of an established client – carries the underglaze blue MPM (Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur) used for a brief period in the early 1720s before the factory adopted its better-known mark of two crossed swords.