A Meissen porcelain chinoiserie coffee pot and cover, with silver-gilt mounts, circa 1724-25

of baluster form with scroll handle, each side painted with two chinoiserie figures flanked by flowering plants below birds and insects in flight, within Böttger lustre and gilt-scroll cartouches issuing iron-red scrolls, flanked by indianische Blumen, the domed cover with insects and a creature, gilt rims, the mounts with later Austrian guarantee mark

Height 8 ⅜ in; 21,4 cm