Details
Of baluster octafoil-section form, the spout issuing from a fish’s head, the double-scroll handle secured by a foliate silver mount with clasps around the lower terminal and upper part, the cover moulded as a jewelled turban with a later silver knop finial
712 in. (19.1 cm.) high overall
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Lot Essay

The form of this coffee-pot with its turban-shaped cover was based on Islamic originals but the decorative elements of the spout issuing from a fish’s head were based on Chinese originals.  For a coffee-pot of this type in the Wark Collection with polished panels, see Ulrich Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, The Wark Collection from The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, London, 2011, p. 71, no. 12, where he notes that in the inventory of the stock taken at Meissen in 1711 the model is described as a Türkische Caffee-Kanne (Turkish coffee-pot).

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