A Meissen porcelain tankard with floral decor - image-1

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A Meissen porcelain tankard with floral decor

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 4.000 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain tankard with floral decor

Cylindrical tankard painted with a Chinoiserie garden with chrysanthemum and peony motifs. Blue crossed swords mark with K in the centre, the unglazed base with a later dreher's mark. The silver mountings with an indistinct maker's mark and owner's monogram. H with thumbrest 17.9 cm.
C. 1739 - 40, decor attributed to Johann David Kretzschmar or Peter Kolmberger. Later silver mountings presumably North German or Danish.

Provenance

Westphalian private collection.

Literature

For more on this decor cf. cat.: Meissner Blaumalerei, Leipzig-Munich 1989, no. 84 ff.
Cf. von Barsewisch, Päonine und Chrysanthemen, in: Keramos121/1988, p. 17 ff.