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Cafetière couverte en porcelaine de Meissen, vers 1755 A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1755 image 1
Cafetière couverte en porcelaine de Meissen, vers 1755 A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1755 image 2
Lot 224

Cafetière couverte en porcelaine de Meissen, vers 1755

A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1755

30 – 31 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche

€3,000 - €5,000

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Cafetière couverte en porcelaine de Meissen, vers 1755

A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1755


Each side finely painted in purple monochrome with a landscape vignette on a base of gilt scrollwork with pendant polychrome flowers and foliage, depicting, on one side, a lion and a leopard in a a rocky landscape with palm trees, the reverse with a leopard attacking a rearing horse bearing a Turk, another horseman fleeing and a third figure on the ground, further painted with scattered purple flower sprigs, the cover similarly decorated with animal vignettes and surmounted by a flower finial, 24cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised N inside footrim (tiny chips to finial) (2)

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Literature
Mauri, Luigi, Fragili Emozioni: Porcellane europee nel gusto di un collezionista lombardo, Milan, 2013, pp. 64-67, cat. 31

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