A very rare Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1732-34

of spreading cylindrical form with scroll handle, painted possibly by J.G. Heintze, with scenes of figures in a harbour landscape within a quatrefoil cartouche filled with Böttger lustre picked out in gilding, embellished with scroll work in iron-red and purple, the ground painted with indianische Blumen, between gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk borders, the domed cover painted with two further harbour landscape panels, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue,

Christie's London, 7th July 1969, lot 197;
Christie's London, 6th October 1980, lot 189

Ulrich Pietsch, Preziosen, einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung, 2001, p. 36 

Small chip to tip of spout. Some wear to gilding on handle. Some wear to gilding around rim of cover. Shallow slice chip to outside of the flange of cover, approx. 1cm. by 0.5cm.
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Thought to derive from a pewter original, another example of this rare form is illustrated by Dieter Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18.Jahrhunderts: Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, 1999, vol. I, no. 209; and subsequently sold by Bonhams, London, 25th November, 2009, lot 56