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A Meissen cylindrical chocolate-pot and cover
Circa 1742, indistinct blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 23
Painted after Watteau, one side with a vignette of two lovers seated on a mound in a wooded landscape, the other with a couple dancing in a similar wooded landscape, surrounded by sprays of Holzschnitt Blumen, the spout moulded and gilded with foliage, the octagonal-section handle with a gilded foliage and shell-moulded terminal, the flat cover pierced with two apertures, applied with a branch handle issuing leaves and flowerheads and painted with a lady in a landscape and scattered sprays of flowers, gilt line rims (two of the flowers of the finial each with a minute chip, minute chip to the end of stalk, minute chip to tip of spout, two minute chips to enamels of vignette of two lovers, very minor rubbing to gilding)
7½ in. (19.5 cm.) high
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