Lot 21
21
A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI COFFEE-POT AND COVER
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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI COFFEE-POT AND COVER

CIRCA 1723-25, THE DECORATION ATTRIBUTED TO IGNAZ PREISSLER, BRESLAU, CIRCA 1725-30

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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI COFFEE-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1723-25, THE DECORATION ATTRIBUTED TO IGNAZ PREISSLER, BRESLAU, CIRCA 1725-30
Of baluster form with a scroll handle, finely decorated in Schwarzlot and gilding with an extensive harbour scene with galleons, ships, merchants, bridges, towers and buildings, the foliage of entwined trees flanking the spout and handle, the domed cover with galleons at sea within a scroll border (pot broken through into sections and repaired with two small associated filled losses, minute chip to spout, chipping to finial)
8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Dr. Andreina Torre, and thence by descent.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The teacaddy and two teabowls and saucers from this service were sold in these Rooms on 28 March 1977, lots 72 and 73. For a teapot decorated in Eisenrot and Schwarzlot with a very similar scene see Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50, London, 2008, p. 623, no. 313.

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