CIRCA 1740-50

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A BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED COFFEE POT AND COVER
Circa 1740-50
With moulded shell-shaped spout and bracket handle, painted in smokey blue tones with dense floral and fruit sprays, the domed cover with a peach finial, cover underside rim chip
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

This form is after a German silver coffee pot of circa 1700-1720, which would have had a wooden handle; it was copied at Meissen in about 1740 as well as in Chinese export porcelain. Compare the armorial coffee pot of this shape in the Hodroff Collection, illustrated by D. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, p.158, no.172, which the author dates to circa 1750. Although this form is found in the 1760's - 1780's, the moulding of the spout became more simplified.

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