A MEISSEN PEAR-SHAPED COFFEE-POT AND DOMED COVER, painted with merchants on quaysides before ships and with women on a quay before a monument and ships within shaped gilt line cartouches with panels of Böttger lustre and iron-red and purple Laub-und-Bandelwerk flanked by indianische Blumen, the rim with a band of interlocking gilt scrollwork and the cover wth gilt ball finial and a continuous harbour scene (extended firing crack to base going slightly up one side, slight flaking to decoration on cover), blue crossed swords and gilder's 7. to both pieces, circa 1730