A MEISSEN BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER
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A MEISSEN BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER

CIRCA 1728-32, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 7. TO BOTH PIECES

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A MEISSEN BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1728-32, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 7. TO BOTH PIECES
Painted with harbour scenes and ships, one side with merchants at the foot of a wall on a quayside, the other with figures by classical ruins on a quayside, one figure pushing his barge with a pole, within shaped quatrefoil cartouches with gilt scrolls enclosing Böttger-lustre panels edged with red and purple scrolls and drapery, the spout and S-scroll handle flanked by indianische Blumen, two insects between the terminals, a Böttger-lustre and gilt scroll escutcheon below the spout, below a gilt interlocking scroll border, the domed cover with a continuous estuary scene with ships, a monument and merchants below a gilt ball finial, gilt band rim (minute areas of wear, pot with firing crack to footrim extending slightly on base and up to cartouche, cover with slight flaking to green enamel)
7 11/16 in. (19.6 cm.) high
来源
Dr. Sali Guggenheim Collection, sale Christie's Geneva, 15th May 1995, lot 81.
展览
Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.
注意事项
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.