A Meissen Hausmaler coffee pot and hinged cover, circa 1725, with German silver-gilt mounts, probably Paul Solanier, Augsburg, circa 1721-27

decorated in gilding in the Seuter-Workshop, Augsburg, with four vignettes of chinoiserie figures, the body of the coffee pot applied in high relief with two flowering branches of jasmine with perching birds and a single bird in flight, the cover with three branches, and gilded with two birds resting on a branch,

Sotheby's London, 16th October 1979, lot 106, sold alongside its original tea and coffee service, lots 107-113

Ulrich Pietsch, Preziosen, einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung, 2001, pp. 54-55

Very fine haircrack to lower part of body extending to the base, directly beneath the spout, approx. 3in. length. Minor wear to gilding on painted decoration. Minor chips and possibly some regilding to applied flowers and extremities. The normal tarnishing to the silver has run on to the gilding porcelain beneath the spout and to an area around the rim of the cover. Silver flower finial probably a replacement.
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