Casgliadau Arlein

Teapot, thickly potted hard-paste porcelain, barely translucent, of conventional Meissen form of the 1720s, i.e., a depressed pear-shape, tapering to a shallow neck, spout curving from a mask terminal, handle missing except for five-petalled upper terminal, and replaced in wicker-covered pewter; decorated in underglaze blue with Meissen-style chinoiseries in typical cartouches of feathery Laub und Bandelwerk scrolls, a seated Chinese man between flowering plants on one side, a kneeling Chinese man with a pipe before a tea table on the other, large sprays of peonies and foliage with insects around the handle and spout, heavy blue rinceaux below the neck; shallow bell-shaped cover, finial missing, decorated with similar sprays.