A VOLKSTEDT FLUTED PEAR-SHAPED COFFEE-POT AND COVER painted with trailing garden flowers from the shaped purple-scale borders edged with gilding, the fluted spout mottled in purple, yellow and green above a gilt shell terminal, the elaborate scroll handle enriched in gilding, the domed cover similarly decorated (chip to tip of spout, hair crack to spout, repaired chip to finial), blue pitchfork mark, circa 1770