Rare chocolate pot with tomato red baseCylindrical ... Lot 724

Rare chocolate pot with tomato red baseCylindrical shape with rounded, profiled shoulder, short neck and leaf-relief tube spout and flat lid with purple dotted rim. Baluster-shaped, gold-staffed handle attachment at the sides with turned wooden handle. On both sides of the wall, in a tomato red background, suitably recessed reserves with figure-rich scenes after Antoine Watteau. On the front a noble lady with mask accompanied by a servant and dog in a landscape with trees and architecture, on the back a harlequin playing the lute in front of a distant hilly landscape. On the shoulder Indian flowering twigs in the Kakiemon style. Gold painter no. 21. gilt bronze mounting. Minim. rest.; sword mark. H. 16 cm. /V/Cf. Pietsch, Coll. Wark, No. 392/ /V/A rare porcelain tomato-red ground chocolate pot with Watteau scenes. Gilder's no. 21. minor restored. Crossed swords mark.// /T/Meissen. At 1740.// $P#