Teapot Teapot

Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory

1765–1770

hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A white porcelain teapot is decorated with painted pastoral scenes and floral motifs, accented with gold trim. Globular body with double C-scroll handle and curving animal-headed spout. Round lid with bud-form knob. Gilt enrichments. Painted floral elements. In open gilt frame is painted Mercury appearing to a female figure. Impressed marks: diagonal lozenges on a shield (the Bavarian “Rautenschild”) and III in a circle Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt