A pair of magnificently painted Meissen porcelain tea bowls and saucers with purple ground - image-1
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Lot 695 Dα

A pair of magnificently painted Meissen porcelain tea bowls and saucers with purple ground

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.250 € (incl. premium)
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A pair of magnificently painted Meissen porcelain tea bowls and saucers with purple ground

Finely painted with landscapes and merchant navy scenes in richly decorated quatrefoil cartouches hung with red and purple feathers. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's number 2. Both tea bowls restored. Saucers D 12 and 12.2 cm.
Circa 1735 - 38, decor attributed to Christian Friedrich Herold.

In contrast to the saucers of the double-handled beakers in the collections of the Hoffmeister brothers and of Marianne and Hans-Peter Carabelli, the cartouche motifs of these pieces are portrait format to correspond to the form of the vessels.
Only very few works with this decor are known to exist. These tea bowls and saucers may belong to the ten tea bowls and saucers mentioned by the Hoffmeister brothers that were sold at auction alongside six double-handled beakers in 1979 as lots 182 - 192.

Provenance

Presumably part of a lot sold by Christie's, London on 25th June 1979, lot 184.

Literature

A two-handled cup and saucer formerly housed in the Hoffmeister collection (Sammlung Hoffmeister, Hamburg 1999, vol. II, Nr. 274).
Cf. also further items from this service, two cups and saucers, in the Carabelli collection (Pietsch, Frühes Meißener Porzellan, Munich 2000, no. 106 - 107).