A MEISSEN PURPLE-GROUND BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER with curved spout and scroll handle, painted with iris and a pine tree on river islands and with peony issuing from rockwork within purple line quatrefoil cartouches flanked by chrysanthemum beneath the handle and a bird on peony beneath the spout and with insects flanking the spout and handle, the cover similarly decorated (chip to tip of spout and chips to footrim), blue crossed swords mark and Dreher's X, circa 1735 | Christie's

Lot 35

A MEISSEN PURPLE-GROUND BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER with curved spout and scroll handle, painted with iris and a pine tree on river islands and with peony issuing from rockwork within purple line quatrefoil cartouches flanked by chrysanthemum beneath the handle and a bird on peony beneath the spout and with insects flanking the spout and handle, the cover similarly decorated (chip to tip of spout and chips to footrim), blue crossed swords mark and Dreher's X, circa 1735

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A MEISSEN PURPLE-GROUND BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER with curved spout and scroll handle, painted with iris and a pine tree on river islands and with peony issuing from rockwork within purple line quatrefoil cartouches flanked by chrysanthemum beneath the handle and a bird on peony beneath the spout and with insects flanking the spout and handle, the cover similarly decorated (chip to tip of spout and chips to footrim), blue crossed swords mark and Dreher's X, circa 1735
18cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Ralph Wark & Mary Campbell Gristina, op. cit., no. 324 for a coffee-pot of slightly different form but with a similar type of decoration

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