Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 125
A Nove, Antonibon's factory, porcelain teapot and cover, circa 1765
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £7,312.50 inc. premium
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Sebastian Kuhn
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Nove, Antonibon's factory, porcelain teapot and cover, circa 1765
Lobed with vertical panels of moulded flowers alternating with panels painted with flower sprays, moulded rocailles and shellwork borders around the foot and rim, with a scroll handle and moulded shellwork to the tip of the spout, the cover moulded like a flower and applied with a flower finial, 12.7cm high, star mark in iron-red (chip to spout tip and tiny chips to finial) (2)
Footnotes
A similar teapot was sold by Sotheby's London, 9 July 1957, lot 108, and another is illustrated in F. Stazzi, Italian Porcelain (1964), colour plate XXIII. Another example of the same shape but painted with landscape scenes is in the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (illustrated in A. Lane, Italian Porcelain (1954), pl. 30a).
