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Lot 1163 D α

A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with mythological scenes

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
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A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with mythological scenes

The cup painted with a depiction of Diana and a nymph, the saucer with Juno amid clouds and Cupid with his arrows. Blue crossed swords mark with star and 4. H of cup 6.3, D of saucer 13.5 cm.
Circa 1790 - 1800.

The depiction on this cup is based on an illustration by Noël Lemire after Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen from Abbé Banier's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, published in 1769-71 in Paris.

Provenance

The Hiemisch collection.

Literature

This cup illustrated in Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord. Meissener Porzellanmalerei und ihre grafischen Vorlagen, vol. 2, Dresden 2018, no. 86b.