The form of this teapot, with its baroque design of raised still leaves owes nothing to Japan, but is a model of Johann Jakob Irminger, the Dresden court silversmith, who was employed at Meissen since 1710 to create new designs (So die inventions und neuen Desseins besorget).

With such an obviously European form this was presumably not intended to dupe a buyer into thinking it was Japanese, but just decorated in the taste that was then so fashionable.

Condition:
Finial restuck, slight enamel flaking

Literature:

Manners 2024
‘Decorators on Ceramics and Glass’, 2024, no. 45

Price: £11,000