PORCELAIN COFFEE POT AND COVER WITH INSCRIPTION

Description:

Limbach, dated 1790
H. 25 cm
Quodlibet with Gotthelf Greiner's advertising inscription ‘Gotthelf Greiner verfertiget zu Limbach Porcellain’ as well as ‘wahrer Adel’ and ‘Gesetz Leopold II’. Without mark. Min. chips, min. wear. The handle restored.
Jan Ahlers Collection
Johann Gotthelf Greiner (1732-1797), owner of a glass factory in Limbach, founded the porcelain manufactory in Limbach in 1772. The jug was dated with regard to the inscription ‘Leopold II’, who was crowned German Emperor on 30 September 1790.