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Coffee pot, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, pear-shaped body with cylindrical neck, triangular beak spout with to the underside the moulded mask of a human face surrounded by moulded scrolls, high scrolled loop handle with several inner and outer spurs and foliate moulding to the underside of the upper terminal, round domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a rose with a stem and leaves, some of which are slightly chipped, around the exterior neck of the coffee pot and the sides of the cover are slightly raised basketwork bands; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the exterior body of the coffee pot scattered sprays and sprigs of naturalistic flowers including a tulip, the moulded mask to the underside of the spout picked out in puce and naturalistic colours, the rose finial painted in puce and green. The lip-rim of the coffee pot and the rim of the cover very slightly chipped.