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Lot 119 Dα

A Saxon serpentine teapot

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
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A Saxon serpentine teapot

Finely turned and polished green-veined serpentine with silver gilt mountings. Polygonally faceted globular vessel with a faceted spout and rounded handles attached via studs. The original (restored) domed lid with a flat finial. Lid and basal ring fitted with moulded vermeil reliefs and a band of engraved foliage. The tip of the spout with a similar cuff. The handle and finial connected via a chain. H 13.8 cm.
The serpentine Zöblitz, the vermeil mountings first quarter 18th century.

Literature

Cf. a teapot with identical mountings in the Jahn collection (in: Ulferts, Sammlung Jahn Sächsischer Serpentin. Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Berlin 2000, no. 69), auctioned in Lempertz Cologne auction 1000, lot 860. Further identical teapots, for example in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne and in the Umeleckoprumyslové Museum in Prague, published in: Hoyer, Sächsischer Serpentin. Ein Stein und seine Verwendung, Leipzig 1995, no. 184 ff.