Coffeepot with Stylized Floral Motifs

Coffee pot of porcelain with a half-spherical body, flat shoulder, and long, tapering neck. Lightly curved spout and high ear from the rim. Painted on the glaze in green and red. On the outer wall, continuing onto the spout and from the ear to the neck, stylized flower branches. The lid with the same decoration. Signed on the base of the ear with 'M. DUFRENE'. Marked on the underside with '82.R. des Petits Champs/ MML/ La Maison Moderne'. Designed by Maurice Dufrêne, manufactured for La Maison Moderne, possibly by Le Parthénon, Paris. The lid is a plastic replacement for the original.