Five items of Meissen porcelain with Watteau scenes in green
Comprising a small coffee pot with Gotzkowsky mouldings and a corresponding but presumably associated lid, two cups with branch form handles and original saucers. Decorated with depictions of elegant couples in fine camaieu polychromy, the rims with delicate gilt lace borders. Blue crossed swords mark, 14. in gold (cups) and 57. (coffee pot), 60. in purple and pressnummer 64 (saucer). The spout of the coffee pot restored, minor rim chips. H coffee pot 14 cm.
Circa 1745 - 50.
The manufactory began collecting engravings with so-called Watteau motifs in the 1740s at the initiative of Count Hennicke. The images, based on works by Antoine Watteau, Nicolas Lancret or Jean Baptiste Pater, formed the basis for numerous scenes of elegant couples walking or making music in park landscapes, which slowly superseded the Hoeroldt Chinoiseries. Particular attention was afforded to a service with these motifs in green camaieu produced on occasion of the 10 year wedding anniversary of Princess Maria Amalia Christina of Saxony and King Charles III of Naples in the year 1748.
Provenance
Heinz Reichert, Munich (beakers and saucer).
Acquired from Sotheby's, Zurich, 7th and 8th June 2000, lot 619 (beakers and saucer).
Literature
Shown in cat. Flower Collection. Meissen porcelain from the Tono Dreßen collection, Munich 2018, p. 127, No. 84.