Vezzi was the third European factory to produce hard-paste porcelain, following Meissen (1710) and Vienna (1718). Founded by Francesco Vezzi (1651–1740), it was in existence for only seven years, and production is thought to have been limited to about the last three of those years. Tablewares were the principal output, especially teapots of imaginative (and occasionally eccentric) design. In this example all the influences concurrent in the early manufacture of porcelain have been beautifully coordinated into a disciplined, graceful model. The polygonal form has been borrowed from Vienna, the well-modeled festoons recall Vezzi's background as a goldsmith, and the painted decoration of a delicate underglaze gray-blue evokes Chinese porcelain.

The cover is not the original one, being spherical instead of polygonal, but its decoration is the work of the same painter, and it appears to have been fired at the same time.