A MEISSEN BALUSTER CHINOISERIE COFFEE-POT AND DOMED COVER
CIRCA 1725-28, OVERGLAZE PUCE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
With a richly-gilt spout and S-scroll handle, probably painted by P.E. Schindler with a continuous scene of chinoiserie figures on a terrace with shrubs and trees, including a seated man before cooking vessels on a table flanked by a man holding a flag and a woman and child before a column pedestal surmounted with a vase of red coral, the sides with a man seated holding a fan and other figures gardening, with scattered insects and exotic birds in flight, below a gilt border of pendant scrolls and flowerheads, the handle with two sprays of iron-red indianische Blumen, the cover similarly decorated with a continuous scene of chinoisere figures taking tea, gardening and at various pursuits, within iron-red double concentric lines and gilt bands (restored rim chip to cover, very minor chipping to finial, minute scratching to enamels and gilding)
9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) high
A MEISSEN BALUSTER CHINOISERIE COFFEE-POT AND DOMED COVER
CIRCA 1725-28, OVERGLAZE PUCE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
With a richly-gilt spout and S-scroll handle, probably painted by P.E. Schindler with a continuous scene of chinoiserie figures on a terrace with shrubs and trees, including a seated man before cooking vessels on a table flanked by a man holding a flag and a woman and child before a column pedestal surmounted with a vase of red coral, the sides with a man seated holding a fan and other figures gardening, with scattered insects and exotic birds in flight, below a gilt border of pendant scrolls and flowerheads, the handle with two sprays of iron-red indianische Blumen, the cover similarly decorated with a continuous scene of chinoisere figures taking tea, gardening and at various pursuits, within iron-red double concentric lines and gilt bands (restored rim chip to cover, very minor chipping to finial, minute scratching to enamels and gilding)
9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) high
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