Duvivier at Derby – the clues and secrets of a Chelsea-Derby teapot
Luckily for me, the teapot pictured here did not sell last year at a porcelain auction in Heidelberg, Germany, and I was able to acquire it after the sale.(i) It was erroneously catalogued as Tournai porcelain, but is actually an English Chelsea-Derby teapot with a shape dating from the time Fidelle Duvivier was employed at the Derby factory (cf. 3). And what immediately caught my eye were those putti (cherubs) which I recognized as his work. In fact, they closely resemble those he painted later on Ansbach porcelain at the Lyncker decorating atelier in The Hague, ca. 1783 (cf. 4), as I described in a previous blogpost.(ii)