An extremely rare Böttger White Porcelain Coffee Pot and Cover, of slender baluster shape with scrolled handle, moulded with basal fluting to the lower part and the neck of the jug, gilt with Chinese figures playing in a garden surrounded by trees and willows, one group on one side with a juggler holding a tray in one hand and a bird in the other, trying to step over a child, whilst a figure holds a parasol and shades a swan that stands upon a table. The other side with a Magician holding a large ring above his head that is hung with bells, as he performs a trick, the scene is divided by a classical pillar issuing bushes on either side, chinamen take tea under a parasol on the other side of the pillar with a begging dog at their feet, the spout, handle and cover gilt with formal gold bands and highlights. The slightly domed cover with cusped knop and mounted onto the jug in silver.

See: Armin B. Allen, 18th Century Meissen Porcelain from the Collection of Gertrude J. & Robert T. Anderson for details of this coffee pot.

Gilt Chinoiseries were a speciality of the decorating workshops of the Seuter Family in Augsburg - Bartholomaus (1678-1754) and his brother Abraham Seuter (1690 - 1747). This Coffee Pot in Meissen Bottger Porcelain (circa 1718 - 20) is painted in the fashion attributed to Abraham. These freelance artists - Hausmaler - worked outside the factory. The Seuter workshop must have had close relationships with a number of Augsburg goldsmiths, and in particular Elias Adam (1669 - 1745) who is recorded as having mounted numerous early Meissen wares decorated there - including this Coffee Pot.
See silver hallmark EA for Elias Adam.

Mark
Lustred mark ‘dm’ to the underside of the base of the jug. The hallmark EA for Elias Adam, working in Augsburg and active 1703-1745.