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A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1735 image 1
A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1735 image 2
Lot 30*

A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1735

5 December 2012, 13:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1735

Decorated with a large chinoiserie scene on each side within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and embellished with iron-red scrollwork, swags and trellis panels, depicting on one side, five figures seated around a table, the reverse with four figures watching a monkey holding a bird, further painted with sprigs of indianische Blumen below a gilt foliate scrollwork border around the rim, the cover with three chinoiserie vignettes and a burnished gilt rim and finial, 20cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to coffee pot, gilt numeral 12. to both, incised x (for J.C. Pietzsch or J.D. Rehschuh) to coffee pot (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Zürich, 1 June 1994, lot 98;
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 15 October 1996, lot 463

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 43

Details from the chinoiserie scenes on the coffee pot were taken from the Schulz Codex, plate 37.

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