A MEISSEN BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER with S-scroll handle and richly gilt spout, painted with extensive harbour scenes, merchants at discussion among packages and barrels before ships and below cloudy skies within gilt, iron-red and purple Laub-und-Bandelwerk cartouches with Böttger lustre panels, below the spout a large toad and about the handle a salamander, the rim with a band of gilt scrollwork and Purpurmalerei shipping scenes below a gilt band, the cover with two quayside scenes within concentric iron-red lines and a gilt band (restoration to rim of cover, very minor rubbing to handle and footrim), blue crossed swords mark and Dreher's X, circa 1735