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

Lot 673 Dα

A Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer from the Benada service

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.500 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer from the Benada service

The display side of the cup and well of the saucer painted with a coat of arms crowned by a standing horse. The back of the tea bowl with a merchant navy scene in an identical reserve. Gilt interior. Blue crossed swords mark, L. in gold, indented cross dreher's mark (tea bowl) and impressed 2 (saucer). The gilding slightly worn, the inner rim of the saucer's basal ring chipped. H cup 4.5, D 7.6, D saucer 13 cm.
Circa 1739 - 40.

Provenance

Acquired in 1990 from Heinz Reichert, Munich.

Literature

Cf. a further cup and saucer, formerly in the Hoffmeister collection, in: Sammlung Hoffmeister, Hamburg 1999, vol. II, no. 332. Dieter Hoffmeister has proposed that the coat of arms belongs to Johann Christian Benada, "der 1706 in den böhmischen Ritterstand erhoben wurde " (p. 598).
Cf. a further cup and saucer in the Wark Collection (in: Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain. The Wark Collection from the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, London 2011, no. 557).