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Lot 64*

A Meissen octagonal purple-ground coffee pot and cover, circa 1740

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

£10,000 - £12,000

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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)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Herbert Pick Collection, Amsterdam, to 1956

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

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