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Antique 18thC Tournai Porcelain Scenic Tepot Porzellan Teekanne Belgian Belgium
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For sale is an absolutely amazing piece of porcelain made by Tournai ( probably the workshops of François Peterlinck ) in the 18th century around 1763. It is a little teapot made of softpaste porcelain and likely from a tete a tete or solitaire. It has their typical shape with their typical handle as well as finial. I could not find another example of this combination of battle scenes with the blue ground and gilding! Definitely one of the top pieces they ever made! The teapot is hand painted with a polychrome equestrian battle scene to either side - one side has four soldiers on four horses in the foreground with one wielding a sword and one a pistol. All this in a landscape surrounding. Interestingly in the background there are a lot more horsemen all painted in monochrome brown which li