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A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN SPIRIT BARREL OR COFFEE KEG (KAFFEEFÄSSCHEN)
A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN SPIRIT BARREL OR COFFEE KEG (KAFFEEFÄSSCHEN)
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A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN SPIRIT BARREL OR COFFEE KEG (KAFFEEFÄSSCHEN)

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1735-1740, THE FRENCH SILVER-GILT MOUNT, COVER AND ASSOCIATED ORMOLU STAND 19TH CENTURY

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A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN SPIRIT BARREL OR COFFEE KEG (KAFFEEFÄSSCHEN)
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1735-1740, THE FRENCH SILVER-GILT MOUNT, COVER AND ASSOCIATED ORMOLU STAND 19TH CENTURY
Of barrel form, the sides painted with variant flowering vine patterns alternate with molded “hoops” enriched in gilt, the front painted with a toper seated astride the spout, the reverse with an insect flying above chrysanthemum blooms
9 1/8 in. (23.1 cm.) long, overall

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Lot Essay

For another barrel of this form in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, also painted with a toper, but above a porcelain stand and listed as a Kaffefässchen, see R. Rüchert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, color plate X, cat. No. 277.

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