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Lot 144

A Nymphenburg coffee pot and cover, circa 1770

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Nymphenburg coffee pot and cover, circa 1770

Possibly painted by C. Purtscher with landscape vignettes depicting three figures gardening on one side and a couple dancing on the other, the handle and spout moulded with scrollwork and heightened in gilding, the rim with a gilt scrollwork border, the cover decorated with the same gilt border and gilt scrollwork interspersed with flowers, 20.5cm high, impressed shield mark , impressed K and incised II inside footrim, G Ζ m I α ʒ in underglaze-blue along the interior of the cover (small chips to cover rim) (2)

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Provenance:
The Sperling Collection, Munich

The vignette depicting figures gardening is after the print 'April' by Johann Esaias Nilson from his series of the months, circa 1766. A milk jug with 'August' from Nilson's prints and possibly from the same service is illustrated by A. Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml (1997), no. 586.

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