CIRCA 1725, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION ALMOST CONTEMPORARY, DREHER'S TO FOOTRIM

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A MEISSEN GOLDCHINESEN BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1725, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION ALMOST CONTEMPORARY, DREHER'S TO FOOTRIM
Decorated in the Seuter workshop, each side with Orientals on terraces with palm trees and shrubs, and with birds in flight above, one side with figures about an oval table taking tea, one holding a parasol, the other with dignitaries taking tea beneath a canopy, an attendant with a tray of steaming pots, on tightly woven scroll supports, the scroll handle with husks, half the spout and upper rim gilt with a scalloped border edged with scrolls, the domed cover with three birds perched on branches below a gilt knop finial, within a gilt band rim (very slight wear to tip of spout, very minor wear to cover)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 7th May 1979 lot 113.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

For a tankard and a coffee-pot with very similar palm trees see, S. Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750 (Braunschweig, 1971), Vol. I, nos. 162 and 171.

For a detail of the figures on the other side of this coffee-pot, see p. 74.

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