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Pot, coffee
Coffee pot and cover, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a foot rim, pear-shaped body, folded spout with small circle opening moulded with scrollwork, scroll handle, domed cover with flower finial, body and cover moulded with lobes alternately moulded with foliate decoration; decorated in polychrome enamels, the unmoulded lobes each with a figure, one a male figure with a yellow cloak playing a lute, one a jester with a hat, the other a female wearing a red bodice wearing a maks and a blue and purple hat, gilding to handle and spout, gilt concentric line to foot rim and rim. Cover decorated with four sprigs to unmoulded lobes, two orange and yellow and two purple and yellow, gilt concentric line to rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33629
Creation/Production
Meissen
Date: 1880 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 17.5
Length
(cm): 13.2
Width
(cm): 10.7
Height
(in): 6
Length
(in): 5
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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