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Lot 173

A Höchst coffee pot and cover, circa 1780

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

£1,000 - £1,500

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A Höchst coffee pot and cover, circa 1780

Each side finely painted in puce camaieu with a Watteauesque landscape vignette, an elegant couple taking a walk accompanied by a maid on one side and seated on the ground drinking wine on the other, scattered flower sprays to the neck and cover between gilt line borders, 26cm high, wheel mark in underglaze-blue (tiny restored chips) (2)

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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 2 April 2003, lot 71

A coffee pot and milk jug of this shape with putti in puce camaieu are illustrated in P. Stahl, Höchster Porzellan 1746-1796 (1994), p. 122, no. 4.9.8.

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