A Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer from the Cavalli service - image-1

Lot 672 Dα

A Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer from the Cavalli service

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 5.750 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer from the Cavalli service

The display side of the tea bowl and the well of the saucer both decorated with the coat of arms in a gilt contoured brown rocaille cartouche. Decorated throughout with merchant navy scenes, the saucer with scattered flowers. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's mark with an indented cross (tea bowl) and two stars for Christian Meynert. H 4.5, D 7.9, saucer D 13 cm.
Circa 1735 - 40.

Provenance

Acquired in 1986 from Gerhard Röbbig, Munich.

Literature

Cf. Sammlung Hoffmeister (vol. II, Hamburg 1999, no. 320).
Cf. Cassidy-Geiger, Princes and Porcelain on the Grand Tour of Italy, in: dies., Fragile Diplomacy Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, New York 2007, p. 228. The author proposes that the service could have been produced for Giacomo Cavalli in Verona.
The British Museum in London also houses a saucer from this service for which the Cozzi manufactory in Venice later produced a corresponding tea bowl (mus. no. Franks.86).