Decorated in the workshop of George Funcke, Dresden, of globular form with a curved spout with mask terminal and loop handle with foliate terminals, each side moulded with a flower spray in high relief and a border of tassels and lappets below the rim, the domed cover moulded with three flower sprigs and flower motifs around the finial, enamelled in blue, green, puce, black and yellow, 13cm high (small flat chip to mask, a few spots of flaking to enamels) (2)
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Provenance:Anon. sale, Sotheby's Olympia, 12 June 2002, lot 94George Funcke's invoices for enamel colours (published by Claus Boltz, Steinzeug und Porzellan der B?ttgerperiode, in Keramos 167/168 (2000), p. 143) suggest that black enamel was only used from 1718. A similar teapot from the historic collection of the Margraves of Baden is in Schloss Favorite (U. Grimm/W. Wiese, Was bleibt (1996), p. 57), and another is the Ariana Museum, Geneva (R. Blaettler, Ariana Museum Geneva (1995), p. 63).