Cafetière couverte en porcelaine de Meissen, circa 1735

A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1735

Painted with a continuous chinoiserie scene depicting, on one side, numerous figures around a table beneath a palm tree playing cards, the reverse with a group in a raised pagoda and with a dragon in flight overhead, below a band of gilt scrollwork below the gilt rim and spout, the cover similarly decorated, the handle embellished with gilding and a flower sprig, 21.7cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 13. to both, incised z inside footrim of coffee pot (spout regilt, minor flaking to gilt rims) (2)
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Riehen, Switzerland, sold Christie's Geneva, 12 November 1976, lot 184

Literature:
E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, I (1972), p. 442

There is some regilding to the spout and spray residue (visible under UV) to the whole spout. The (old) regilding is dried and brittle in places, with some spots of flaking along the edge, and one to the side. There is some minor wear to the gilt scrollwork border below the rim, and a few tiny spots of flaking along the top edge of the gilt rim on one side.
There are two small spots of flaking to the gilding on the bottom tip of the handle.
There is some scattered, narrow flaking around the bottom edge of the gilt footrim.
Otherwise in good condition.