A MEISSEN PORCELAIN CELADON-GROUND COFFEE POT AND COVER

CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILT 65. TO EACH

Details

Of baluster form with a rocaille-molded spout, the body and domed cover reserved on each side with a quatrefoil gilt-edged cartouche, painted with harborside merchants and a courting couple on a terrace
9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.) high overall
Provenance

Estate of Michael Moseley; Sotheby's, London, 16 July 1946, lot 139 (as 'painted by J.G. Heintze').
With J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York.
The Collection of Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke; Sotheby's, New York, September 26, 1989, lot 56.
Literature

W.B. Honey, German Porcelain, London, 1947, pl. 10 (as 'perhaps painted by J.G. Heintze').
Exhibited

Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, March 30, 1964 to October 2, 1969.