Rare Biedermeier teapot

Silver. Over four exhibited ball feet, bulging, almost rectangular body with rounded corners and wide exhibited edge. Shoulder framed by a broad, reliefed acanthus leaf frieze. Deeply set, conical, ending in a lion head spout. Slightly hood-like hinged lid with gadrooned wooden knob over a rosette of finely punched lancet leaves. Side ear handles made of ebonized wood. On the wall monogram "VN". Designed, marked, master Heinrich Anthon Schauenburg (active since 1819). Approximate weight 425 g. Height 15.5 cm. Compare Schliemann, Vol. II, BZ 93, No. 585, Vol. III, p. 236, fig. 583 (similar type). A rare German Biedermeier silver teapot by Heinrich Anthon Schauenburg (active since 1819). Monogrammed. Assay and master's mark. German. Hamburg. Around 1835.