A MEISSEN PEAR-SHAPED CHOCOLATE-POT AND COVER with neuozier moulding and scroll and foliage-moulded spout and handle, painted with a musician and a lady in landscape vignettes within arbours entwined with flowers and foliage and with scattered flower-sprays, the cover with bud finial (two chips to tip of spout and slight chips to bud finial), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1760, the cover with gilt-metal fitment to underside
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A MEISSEN PEAR-SHAPED CHOCOLATE-POT AND COVER with neuozier moulding and scroll and foliage-moulded spout and handle, painted with a musician and a lady in landscape vignettes within arbours entwined with flowers and foliage and with scattered flower-sprays, the cover with bud finial (two chips to tip of spout and slight chips to bud finial), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1760, the cover with gilt-metal fitment to underside
16cm. high
Lot Essay
See Rainer Rückert, op. cit., pl. 178, no. 760 for a cabaret with a similar shaped chocolate-pot