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Lot 43

A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1726-27

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £8,000

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A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1726-27

Painted with flowering branches of indianische Blumen above two iron-red lines, smaller sprigs on the spout and handle, the domed cover with similar sprigs enclosed by an iron-red and gilt floral border reserved with demi-florets, gilt finial, 20.4cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (restoration to tip of spout and rim of cover) (2)

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Literature:
U. Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung (1993), no. 58

Exhibited:
Lübeck, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck - St. Annen-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung', 14 November 1993-31 January 1994;
Aachen, Museen der Stadt Aachen - Couven Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung', 26 February-20 April 1994

A similar coffee pot and cover was sold in these Rooms from the Delphinium Collection, 20 March 2013, lot 26. A similarly decorated teapot and cover with eagle spout was in the Siegfried Salz Collection, sold by Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, 26-27 March 1929, lot 206, and another is in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim (J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), no. 444).

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