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A rare Meissen red-ground coffee urn, circa 1745 image 1
A rare Meissen red-ground coffee urn, circa 1745 image 2
A rare Meissen red-ground coffee urn, circa 1745 image 3
A rare Meissen red-ground coffee urn, circa 1745 image 4
A rare Meissen red-ground coffee urn, circa 1745 image 5
Lot 36

A rare Meissen red-ground coffee urn, circa 1745

500 Years of European Ceramics including the Richard Deacon Collection
2 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A rare Meissen red-ground coffee urn, circa 1745

On three scroll feet, the pear-shaped body reserved with two shaped cartouches painted with elegant figures and buildings in a river landscape, and figures and buildings by a harbour, flanked by two C-scroll handles, both moulded with acanthus leaf finials picked out in gilding, the domed cover with similar scenes, mounted with a silver tap, likely later, 33.3cm, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to the base over gilders mark 'O.' (finial and two legs restuck) (2)

Footnotes

The prints by Melchior Küsel (1626-1683) after Baur were used often at the Meissen factory, and a group of them are still present today in the Meissen archives. For further reading on the prints of Johann Baur see: Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Meissener Porzellanmalerei und ihre Grafischen Vorlagen, Vol II, pp. 30-50.

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