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Lot 694 Dα

A rare Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with merchant navy scenes in the original travel case

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 5.500 € (incl. premium)
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A rare Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with merchant navy scenes in the original travel case

Round cup with flaring rim and C-shaped handles with the original saucer. Decorated with figures on brackets in three sumptuous black contoured reserves flanked by additional figures in purple camaieu. The inner rims with gilt tendrils and merchant navy scenes in miniature. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's mark II for Johann Gottlieb Geithner (cup), 2. in gold, . Minor wear to the gilding. In the original gilt embossed red leather travel case with replaced textile lining, H 9.7, D 15.3 cm. H cup 6.1, D 6.7, D saucer 13 cm.
1735 - 38, decor attributed to Johann George Heintze.

Provenance

Acquired from Christie's London, on 4th December 1985, lot 86.

Literature

Illus. in cat.: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, p. 81, no. 52.
Cf. a cup of the same service in cat. Meissen. Baroque porcelain, Stuttgart-Cologne 2010, cat. no. 206.