A MEISSEN BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER CIRCA 1728-32, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 7. TO BOTH PIECES Painted with harbour scenes and ships, one side with merchants at the foot of a wall on a quayside, the other with figures by classical ruins on a quayside, one figure pushing his barge with a pole, within shaped quatrefoil cartouches with gilt scrolls enclosing Böttger -lustre panels edged with red and purple scrolls and drapery, the spout and S-scroll handle flanked by indianische Blumen , two insects between the terminals, a Böttger -lustre and gilt scroll escutcheon below the spout, below a gilt interlocking scroll border, the domed cover with a continuous estuary scene with ships, a monument and merchants below a gilt ball finial, gilt band rim (minute areas of wear, pot with firing crack to footrim extending slightly on base and up to cartouche, cover with slight flaking to green enamel) 7 11/16 in. (19.6 cm.) high
A MEISSEN BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER CIRCA 1728-32, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 7. TO BOTH PIECES Painted with harbour scenes and ships, one side with merchants at the foot of a wall on a quayside, the other with figures by classical ruins on a quayside, one figure pushing his barge with a pole, within shaped quatrefoil cartouches with gilt scrolls enclosing Böttger -lustre panels edged with red and purple scrolls and drapery, the spout and S-scroll handle flanked by indianische Blumen , two insects between the terminals, a Böttger -lustre and gilt scroll escutcheon below the spout, below a gilt interlocking scroll border, the domed cover with a continuous estuary scene with ships, a monument and merchants below a gilt ball finial, gilt band rim (minute areas of wear, pot with firing crack to footrim extending slightly on base and up to cartouche, cover with slight flaking to green enamel) 7 11/16 in. (19.6 cm.) high
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