Model Number: A 1141 by Paul Scheurich
Height: 12 cm
The model for this tea canister and cover was completed before Scheurich fell ill in August 1923. Scheurich’s lack of income in the following years compelled his wife Käthe to sell several figures from his studio to the Meissen manufactory including, in 1926, this tea canister. Due to Scheurich’s protracted illness, Meissen decided on the decoration itself and the first tea canister was sold in June 1927 and 11 more by 1931…