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Lot 681 Dα

A Meissen porcelain ecuelle and stand with merchant navy scenes

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 2.125 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain ecuelle and stand with merchant navy scenes

Dish and stand designed for serving soup to a nursing woman. Both pieces decorated with finely painted merchant navy scenes and water landscapes in ten quatrefoil reserves. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's number 16 (stand) and dreher's mark . . for Johann Martin Kittel jr. (tureen). The handles restored, gilding overworked, minor glaze wear. D stand 23 cm.
Circa 1740.

Provenance

Formerly part of the collection of Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (stand).
Acquired from Christie's Geneva, 9th May 1988 (stand).

Literature

Illus. in cat.: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, p. 85.
Cf. the same model with different handles in: Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich 1966, no. 402.