A RARE BAYREUTH BROWN STONEWARE TEA- AND COFFEE SERVICE

Description:

mid 18th century
H. 4,5-22,5 cm
Red ceramic ware, each piece decorated in 'cold' gilding with, in the centre, a bird perched on a rock and flanked by stylised growing plants, all with scrollwork borders, comprising: Teapot and Cover, Coffee Pot and Cover, Milk-Jug and Cover, Slop-Bowl and Cover, Sugarbowl and Cover, ten Teabowls and eleven Saucers, and a teacaddy and Cover, some regilding, minute chips to cups and saucers, coffee pot, mocca pot and three cups restored.
Important Rhenish private collection, with Sotheby's London 15.3.1983, Lot 35