Details
With high domed cover, spired-button finial, loop handle and scroll spout above a molded lion mask, both painted with scenes of large European ships at harbor, one side painted with a camel among the figures on shore, within a surround of iron-red and gilt stylized foliage and Böttger-lustre panels, the cover, handle and spout with flowers and insects
614 in. (15.8 cm.) long
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 April 1997, lot 47.
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For similar pieces perhaps from the same service, see Christie's, London, 2 July 1984, lot 216 for a waste bowl and Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1971, lot 201 for a coffee-pot.

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