A large Meissen porcelain coffee pot with merchant navy scenes
A large Meissen porcelain coffee pot with merchant navy scenes
Bulbous vessel with original lid and floral finial. Painted with strongly outlined harbour scenes and iron red borders. Blue crossed swords mark. Minor wear to the gilding, a tiny loss to the green pigment, chips to the flowers and foliage of the lid. H with lid
Circa 1735 – 40, decor attributed to Christian Friedrich Herold.
Literature
Cf. similar decor in Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London 2011, no. 404; cf. also Pietsch, Passion for Meissen. Sammlung Said und Roswitha Marouf, Stuttgart 2010, no. 94; Cf. Also Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710 -50, New York-London 2008, no. 147.
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A large Meissen porcelain coffee pot with merchant navy scenes
Bulbous vessel with original lid and floral finial. Painted with strongly outlined harbour scenes and iron red borders. Blue crossed swords mark. Minor wear to the gilding, a tiny loss to the green pigment, chips to the flowers and foliage of the lid. H with lid
Circa 1735 – 40, decor attributed to Christian Friedrich Herold.
Literature
Cf. similar decor in Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London 2011, no. 404; cf. also Pietsch, Passion for Meissen. Sammlung Said und Roswitha Marouf, Stuttgart 2010, no. 94; Cf. Also Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710 -50, New York-London 2008, no. 147.
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