Meissen produced several models of cockerel-form teapots in the first half of the 18^th century, including not only the present model, but also a four-toed variant originating under the directorship of J.F. Böttger during the 1710s, and a slightly more naturalistic model by J.J. Kändler, modelled in the early 1730s. The designs for these derived from imported Chinese tea- or wine-pots in Yixing stoneware, and a Chinese example from the collection of Augustus the Strong, today preserved in the State Porcelain Collection, Dresden (inv. no. PO 3898), may have been the model for Böttger's earliest attempts at the form. Although the teapots produced at Meissen are clearly painted to represent roosters, it should be noted that the Chinese originals were modeled as mythical phoenixes.

Examples of Yixing originals dating to the turn of the 18th century are also included in the collections of the Peabody Essex Museum (accession no. AE86563.AB) and the Metropolitan Museum, New York (accession no. 43.100.39). A further Yixing example, circa 1700, was sold by Christie's, London, on 22 June 1995, lot 482.

Two similar examples in Meissen porcelain are held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum (accession nos. 42.205.51a, b and 1974.356.801a, b), and a further Meissen example is in the collection of the British Museum, London. (museum no. 1928,0116.14.CR). An example of this model is illustrated by R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, pl. 277, no. 1126. A Meissen cockerel teapot, circa 1735, from the collection of Max Hoffmann was sold by Christie's, New York, 21 November 2005, lot 109.