A Meissen porcelain tête à tête in a fitted case. - image-1

Lot 682 Dα

A Meissen porcelain tête à tête in a fitted case.

Auction 1048 - overview Cologne
15.05.2015, 17:00 - Porcelain and Ceramics
Estimate: 10.000 € - 12.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain tête à tête in a fitted case.

The brass-mounted oak coffer covered with embossed leather. Comprising a tray, teapot, milk jug, sugar box, two cups and saucers with spoons. The forms after Sèvres models. The tray finely painted with a depiction of a naiad with putti, the other pieces decorated with putti and attributes of love and music in gilt cartouches. Blue crossed swords mark with dot, the tray impressed H. The tray, one of the saucers and the sugar bowl restored, one spoon glued following a breakage. Minor drying cracks to the leather, the velvet lining replaced. L of tray 32.8 cm, H 8.5 cm. The coffer 15 x 39 x 28 cm.
Ca. 1775, probably painted by Johann George Loehning.

Johann George Loehning (1743 - 1806) was listed among the "Historien und Genies Mahlern 1. Classe" in Meissen from 1764 - 1770. In 1786 he is additionally mentioned in the painter's lists as a "Figuren-Mahler vorzüglichster Classe". He generally painted his putti after the drawings by Johann Eleazar Zeissig (1737 - 1770) inspired by Boucher.

Literature

Cf. a tray with a depiction of Venus attributed to Loehning in: Rückert, Munich 1966, cat. 773.