Live Auction 7464Un hôtel particulier du Faubourg Saint-Germain The Collection of The Marquis and Marquise de Ravenel
A PORTUGUESE COFFEE-POT
Lot 540

A PORTUGUESE COFFEE-POT

OPORTO, AFTER 1938, STAMPED INDISTINCTLY

Closed22 November 2007

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GBP 2,500

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A PORTUGUESE COFFEE-POT
OPORTO, AFTER 1938, STAMPED INDISTINCTLY
After a model by François Thomas Germain, the sprially fluted pear- shaped body on openwork leaf capped scroll feet, with turned wood handle and foliage and berry spout, the hinged cover with bud finial, marked underneath and on cover bezel
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high

Specialist note

A pot of similar form by Germain, Paris, 1757, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.