Theière couverte en porcelaine de Meissen, circa 1730

A Meissen teapot and cover, circa 1730

Finely painted with European landscape scenes, one side with a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside, the reverse with a Dutch winter scene of a frozen river with figures and buildings on the bank and skaters on the ice, within a gilt quatrelobe scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red and purple scrollwork, the gilt-edged handle and spout flanked by indianische Blumen, all below a gilt border of alternating scrollwork and trellis motifs, the domed cover with a continuous harbour landscape and gilt rim and finial, 12.6cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt T. to both (2)
Footnotes:
Provenance
Anon. sale, Bonhams London, 23 May 2012, lot 97;
With Brian Haughton Gallery, London;
Acquired from the above by the present owner

There is a 5mm flake of gilding lacking from the gilt bottom tip of the teapot handle and another adjacent tiny (1mm) spot of wear. There is a miniscule spot of flaking to the gilt back of the handle.
There is a miniscule spot of wear to the tip of the finial on the cover, and a few scattered tiny narrow spots of wear around the bottom edge of the gilt rim of the cover.
There is a miniscule spot of wear (1mm) to the gilt outside edge of the spout.
Overall in very good condition.