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A very rare Meissen coffee pot and cover circa 1735
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £96,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA very rare Meissen coffee pot and cover
circa 1735
Of flared cylindrical form, each side with a gilt quatrelobe cartouche embellished with Böttger lustre and iron-red and purple scrollwork, painted with a scene of huntsmen in a landscape on one side and a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants by a quayside on the reverse, further painted with indianische Blumen between formal gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, the cover painted with a continuous scene above an iron-red double line border and a band of gilt scrollwork, 25cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised x (2)
Of flared cylindrical form, each side with a gilt quatrelobe cartouche embellished with Böttger lustre and iron-red and purple scrollwork, painted with a scene of huntsmen in a landscape on one side and a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants by a quayside on the reverse, further painted with indianische Blumen between formal gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, the cover painted with a continuous scene above an iron-red double line border and a band of gilt scrollwork, 25cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised x (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Siegfried and Lola Kramarsky Collection, Amsterdam and New York, sold Christie's New York, 30 October 1993, lot 23;
Acquired in the above sale
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 209
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Another example of this rare shape, with a gilt spout, was sold by Christie's London, 7 July 1969, lot 197, and again on 6 October 1980, lot 189.
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