A BTTGER PORCELAIN GOLDCHINESEN COFFEE-POT AND COVER

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1718, GILT SLIGHTLY LATER AT AUGSBURG BY BARTOLOMEUS SEUTER, THE MOUNTS BY ELIAS ADAM AND IMPRESSED WITH HIS MAKER'S MARK

Details

A BTTGER PORCELAIN GOLDCHINESEN COFFEE-POT AND COVER
The porcelain circa 1718, gilt slightly later at Augsburg by Bartolomeus Seuter, the mounts by Elias Adam and impressed with his maker's mark
The pear shaped body moulded with gadrooned sections, the cover with similar ornament, applied with a scroll handle, gilt with an Oriental family around a table in a garden, others preparing tea, the moulded sections gilt with alternating bands, scrolls and dots, the hinged mounts cast and engraved with leaf-tip bands, the thumbpiece formed as a shell and scrolls
8in. (21cm.) high

Sale room notice

The silver-gilt mounts are by Elias Adam and are impressed with his maker's mark.

Lot Essay

Cf. The Anderson Collection; Christie's, London, 1 June 1992, lot 6; Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan, Band I, Brunswick, 1971, p. 68, Abb. 223

The style of mount is very similar to the marked mounts found on lot 52 in this sale.