Lot Essay
See Adolf Bayer, Ansbacher Porzellan, Brunswick, 1959, Abb. 133 for a coffee-pot and hot-milk jug of similarly proportioned baluster form, the domed cover with a variant finial.
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PROPERTY OF THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART*
A GERMAN COFFEE-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1800, BLUE A MARK POSSIBLY FOR ANSBACH
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A GERMAN COFFEE-POT AND COVER
Circa 1800, blue A mark possibly for Ansbach
Of baluster form, the scroll handle set high on the shoulder, the beak spout moulded as a cornucopia, painted in the Neo-classic taste with a laurel 'rope' pulling up a puce drape to reveal orange medallions, one of figures bringing a lamb to a sacrificial altar, the other with figures crowning a hero before a temple and flaming column, the domed cover decorated en suite, the two medallions each of a figure kneeling before a brazier
10 1/8in. (25.7cm.) high
Circa 1800, blue A mark possibly for Ansbach
Of baluster form, the scroll handle set high on the shoulder, the beak spout moulded as a cornucopia, painted in the Neo-classic taste with a laurel 'rope' pulling up a puce drape to reveal orange medallions, one of figures bringing a lamb to a sacrificial altar, the other with figures crowning a hero before a temple and flaming column, the domed cover decorated en suite, the two medallions each of a figure kneeling before a brazier
10 1/8in. (25.7cm.) high