Teapot
Meissen Manufactory
(Germany)
about 1725
Object PlaceMeissen, Germany
Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration
DimensionsOverall: 15 x 17.8 x 12.7 cm (5 7/8 x 7 x 5 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Edward Pickman
Accession number62.805a-b
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This teapot's unusual shape is taken from an engraving in the 1667 Book of Vases, an influential book of designs by French painter Jacques Stella. Described in early Meissen records as a teapot "in the form of an old man," this moel remained in production for a decade, often with gold or enamel decoration added afterwards by independent painters working in Augsburg.
InscriptionsInscribed in ink on old (19th century?) paper label: "From the Marryat Collection engraved on page 328 of his 1868 book on Porcelain and Pottery"
Partial printed label [from an auction catalogue] describing "a white and gold teap..."
Gummed MFA label inscribed in ink, "DLP" [Dudley Leavit Pickman]ProvenanceJoseph Marryat (b. 1790 - d. 1876), London. By 1911, Dudley Leavitt Pickman (b. 1850 -d. 1938), Boston [see note]; by descent to his son, Edward Motley Pickman (b. 1886 - d. 1959) and his wife, Hester M. (Mrs. Edward M.) Pickman (b. 1898 - d. 1989), Bedford, MA; 1962, gift of Mrs. Edward M. Pickman to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 19, 1962)
NOTE: Lent to the MFA by Dudley Leavitt Pickman, May 19, 1911 - January 8, 1912.
NOTE: Lent to the MFA by Dudley Leavitt Pickman, May 19, 1911 - January 8, 1912.
