CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED DREHER'S MARK

Details

A MEISSEN GILT-METAL-MOUNTED OZIER-MOULDED KAKIEMON COFFEE-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED DREHER'S MARK
Of baluster form, ozier-moulded, the spout formed as a man wearing a tricorn hat, painted with two quatrefoil panels of birds amongst Oriental flower-sprays, the finial formed from flowering branches and painted with Kakiemon flower-sprays, within brown-line rims
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Guido Rossi, Milan, collection no. 169, according to paper label.

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Lot Essay

For a related coffee-pot with a foliate spout see Julia Weber, Meissener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, Stiftung Ernst Scheider in Schloss Lusteheim, Munich, 2013, Vol. II, p. 214, Kat. No. 187.

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