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Lot 691 Dα

An exceptional Meissen porcelain tray with four tiny cups

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 6.500 € (incl. premium)
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An exceptional Meissen porcelain tray with four tiny cups

Tray of quatrefoil section, the outer rim finely painted with harbour scenes and Dutch maritime scenes in gold quatrefoil reserves on vivid fuscia coloured ground. The well with a large water landscape with a elegant couple, further figures in gilt strapwork surrounds around the lip of the tray. Blue crossed swords mark, pressnummer 26 (tray). One cup with a minor rim chip. W tray 24.5, D 19.9, H cups ca. 3.5 cm.
Circa 1740

Provenance

Acquired in 1986 from Heinz Reichert, Munich.

Literature

Illus. in cat.: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, p. 89, no. 59.
Cf. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich 1966, no. 598 - 602 (tray with four cups).
A further example with four cups in the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, inv. no. 50.192.1-5 (cat. Triumph der blauen Schwerter, Dresden-Leipzig 2010, no. 135).
A similarly decorated tray sold in Lempertz Cologne, Sammlung Jahn, on 12th June 1989, lot 93.

Exhibitions

Exhibited in the Rijksmuseum in 1984.