An octagonal purple-ground coffee pot and cover circa 1735
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A Meissen octagonal purple-ground coffee pot and cover, circa 1740
Each side reserved with a gilt-edged shaped quatrelobe panel painted with, on one side, a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside, the reverse with elegant figures in a park setting, the cover reserved with similar scenes and surmounted by a gilt finial, the scroll handle embellished with a gilt trellis and foliate motif, the spout gilt, 22.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 29. to both (2)
Estimate:
£10,000 - 12,000
€12,000 - 14,000
US$ 15,000 - 18,000

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Herbert Pick Collection, Amsterdam, to 1956

    Literature:
    Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 96

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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