A fine Meissen ormolu mounted tea kettle and cover

A fine Meissen large globular tea kettle and cover, with ormolu mounted swing handle and strawberry knop, superbly painted in coloured enamels with a continuous scene of huntsmen and hounds in an extensive landscape, the crabstock spout picked out in puce and gilt, 11 1/2" high overall, circa 1760, incised mark

Another tea kettle of this form, but painted in puce with flowers, is in the Smithsonian Institute 

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