THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722), THE MOUNTS NORTH EUROPEAN, POSSIBLY GERMANY OR THE NETHERLANDS, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

A similar, slightly smaller, coffee-pot is illustrated in B. MacGuire, Four Centuries of Blue and White: the Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain, London, 2023, cat. no. 127, p. 160. MacGuire writes that the scroll handle, the strut joining the spout and body, and the rounded base with a conical foot indicate this type as one of the earliest coffee-pot forms produced in Jingdezhen. The shape was presumably conveyed to Chinese workshops by Delft pottery prototypes, themselves based on contemporary designs in silver.