A large Meissen porcelain bowl and cover with famille rose decor - image-1
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Lot 716 Dα

A large Meissen porcelain bowl and cover with famille rose decor

Auction 1131 - overview Cologne
17.05.2019, 10:30 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
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A large Meissen porcelain bowl and cover with famille rose decor

Rounded bowl and domed lid, the finial formed as two chickens. Decorated with peony flowers and Buddhist symbols in four large reserves to the outer sides of the bowl. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's mark cross in an indentation, underglaze blue mark to the basal ring. The finial restored, the purple pigment of the flowers partially lacking due to the firing process. H 26.8 cm.
Ca. 1735 - 40.

Provenance

Röbbig art dealers, Munich.
German aristocratic ownership.

Literature

Plates with almost identical decor in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne, Smithsonian Institution Washington, Staatliche Ermitage St. Petersburg und Muzeum Narodowe Warschau. Most recently published in: Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London 2011, no. 227 and in Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern. Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Schloss Lustheim, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. 414 f. The collection also houses a pair of vases with identical decor, cat. 413. Tureens with this decor are exceedingly rare.