A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with scenes after Angelika Kauffmann - image-1
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Lot 1164 Dα

A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with scenes after Angelika Kauffmann

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.200 €

A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with scenes after Angelika Kauffmann

The cup painted with a depiction of Cupid fighting with the Graces to retrieve his arrows, the saucer with Paris and Oenone. Blue crossed swords mark with star and 4 (saucer), gold 115 and 122. H of cup 6.2, D of saucer 13.5 cm.
Circa 1790.

This cup shows an excerpt from a painting by Angelika Kauffmann that was reproduced in an engraving by Gabriel Skorodomoff in 1777. The motif on the saucer is based on an engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after Angelika Kauffmann from 1781.

Provenance

The Hiemisch collection, acquired in 1987.

Literature

"Illustrated in cat. ""Verrückt nach Angelika"" Porzellan und anderes Kunsthandwerk nach Angelika Kauffmann, Düsseldorf 1998, no. 4, p. 25.

Illustrated in Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord. Meissener Porzellanmalerei und ihre grafischen Vorlagen, vol. 2, Dresden 2018, no. 135a and 136b."

Exhibitions

"Verrückt nach Angelika", Hetjens-Museum Düsseldorf 15. November 1998 - 24. January 1999, Haus der Kunst Munich 5. February 1999 - 18. April 1999, Rätisches Museum Chur 7. May 1999 - 11. July 1999.