Currently indexing

Teapot

ca. 1715-20

Meissen manufactory, German

Auffenwerth family workshop

Augsburg, ca. 1730-40

Böttger porcelain

4 3/4 in. (12.07 cm)

Diam.: 2 3/4 in.

Gift of Martha and Henry Isaacson

69.196

Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Dr. Wagner, Amsterdam (Note: Isaacson file: List of donated items to SAM, December 28, 1969, item A82); collection of Mr and Mrs Henry and Martha Isaacson, unknown purchase date until December 1969; gift from Mr and Mrs Henry and Martha Isaacson to Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 1969

Photo: Paul Macapia

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistoryOsaka and Hiroshima, Japan, Mitsukoshi Museums, Koimari-Arita Wares and Early European Porcelains, March 6-May 20, 1979; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Early European Porcelain and Silver: Comparative Forms" July 15, 1980-Aug 31, 1980

Published ReferencesEmerson, Julie. "Coffee, Tea and Chocolate Wares in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, no. 5, p. 17, illus. on cover

Koimari-Kakizaemon toji koryuten = Koimari-Arita Wares and Early European Porcelains: 85 Masterpieces from the Martha and Henry Isaacson Collection, the Seattle Art Museum. Tokyo: Mitsukoshi honten, 1979

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