A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI COFFEE-POT AND COVER
Lot 21

A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI COFFEE-POT AND COVER

CIRCA 1723-25, THE DECORATION ATTRIBUTED TO IGNAZ PREISSLER, BRESLAU, CIRCA 1725-30

Closed29 November 2011

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GBP 5,250

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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI COFFEE-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1723-25, THE DECORATION ATTRIBUTED TO IGNAZ PREISSLER, BRESLAU, CIRCA 1725-30
Of baluster form with a scroll handle, finely decorated in Schwarzlot and gilding with an extensive harbour scene with galleons, ships, merchants, bridges, towers and buildings, the foliage of entwined trees flanking the spout and handle, the domed cover with galleons at sea within a scroll border (pot broken through into sections and repaired with two small associated filled losses, minute chip to spout, chipping to finial)
8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm.) high

Dr. Andreina Torre, and thence by descent.

Specialist note

The teacaddy and two teabowls and saucers from this service were sold in these Rooms on 28 March 1977, lots 72 and 73. For a teapot decorated in Eisenrot and Schwarzlot with a very similar scene see Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50, London, 2008, p. 623, no. 313.