Wonderful Vieux Paris (Old Paris) porcelain coffee set for one comprising a tall coffeepot and a demitasse cup with matching saucer. Ribbed design with alternating white porcelain and gilded vertical stripes. The coffeepot has an acorn finial to lid, moulded acanthus leaf decoration to handle and a figural spout. The cup handle is decorated with a ram's head to base and hand-painted with delicate flower garlands on the inside of the rim.
The sumptuous gold plating makes this a wonderful example of the Empire style.
This shape and gold/white palette were very popular at the turn of the 19th century; similar examples were produced by Royal Vienna as well as Sevres.
The underside of the coffeepot is signed in green "Feuillet"; this set was decorated by Jean-Pierre Feuillet (active 1814–1834).
France, c. 1830's
1330 g
Coffeepot
25.5 cm tall to finial
21.5 cm spout to handle
12 cm across widest point
9.5 cm across the base
Cup
7.5 cm tall to rim
6.5 cm diameter on top
8 cm across with handle
Saucer
2 cm tall
14 cm diameter
Excellent antique condition. Some wear to gilt appropriate to age and use; tiny dark mark to cup and saucer; small dip in gilding on the interior bend of the coffeepot handle.
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