A MEISSEN POWDERED PURPLE-GROUND COFFEE-POT

CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN POWDERED PURPLE-GROUND COFFEE-POT
Circa 1735, blue crossed swords mark
Of baluster form with gilt mask spout and shell-form thumb rest atop the wishbone handle, finely painted on each side with European merchants at a riverbank overseeing the offloading of cargo brought ashore from galleons by smaller boats, the ships sailing off in the distance, reserved on the powdered purple ground within a gilt-edged quatrefoil cartouche
7in. (17.8cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a Meissen coffee-pot of similar form and ground colour, the mask spout painted rather than gilt, the quatrefoil cartouches painted with oriental flowers, the domed cover with ball finial, see Mary Campbell Gristina, The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain, The Cummer Gallery of Art, 1984, no. 324

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