A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE COFFEE-POT and a cover with gilt short spout and scroll handle, painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt with chinoiserie figures taking tea flanked by attendants holding fans, one disguising a glaze fault and with balloons and a parrot on a perch among shrubs and fences between gilt line rims, the top rim with pendant gilt scrolls (chip to spout, crack and associated chips to top of handle, minor rubbing to gilding), blue crossed swords mark, Dreher's mark of 11, gilder's 26., circa 1730, the cover 19th century