A gold-mounted Böttger stoneware coffee pot and a cover circa 1715

probably modelled by J.J.Irminger, of squared baluster form, with scroll handle and squared spout issuing from a fish mask, the domed cover chained, probably in Augsburg,  to an attractive gold crocodile handle-mount and hinged turk's head spout-cover, chip to foot and corner of cover, handle terminal missing 

1 cm chips to corner of cover and to foot. Lower handle terminal missing. Cover probably not matching, but see footnote.
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The fom of this coffee pot exists in several versions, with more or less elaborate handles and with or without moulded prunus on the sides; for the more elaborate version, see R Rückert, Catalogue, 1966, no 1.

The 1776 inventory of items from the Royal collection still held in the Johanneum lists no fewer than 35 of these coffee pots; it has been noted before that the covers of this model seem often to be of different colour to the pot, and it may be that they were mixed up at an early stage, or even from the beginning.