A Meissen baluster coffee-pot and a cover

A Meissen baluster coffee-pot and a cover
Circa 1730, blue crossed swords mark, gilder's 52. to both pieces
With scroll handle painted with indianische Blumen and pointed gilt spout, painted with harbour scenes, one side with a castle on the edge of an estuary with ships at anchor and merchants at discussion on the quayside, the other side with three merchants in the foreground around barrels before distant shipping, merchants on the quayside and islands within shaped gilt edged cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels, puce and iron-red diaper panels, gilt, puce and iron-red scrolls and with iron-red drapery and chinoiserie figures, the ground with indianische Blumen and a bird in flight, the neck with a band of interlocking gilt scrollwork, broad gilt bands to the rim and footrim, the domed cover with a continuous harbour scene including merchants, a crane, ships, barrels and packages about a pointed button finial, within concentric iron-red lines and gilt rim (slight scratching to gilt rim of cover)
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high (2)