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Lot 1548 Dα

A Meissen Boettger porcelain slop bowl with Chinoiserie decor

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
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A Meissen Boettger porcelain slop bowl with Chinoiserie decor

The outer surface painted with Chinoiserie motifs, the interior gilded. Wear to the gilding, minor rim chips. H 7.2, D 16.8 cm.
The porcelain Meissen, around 1720, decor attributed to Ignaz Preissler, around 1730, after Johann Christoph Weigel.

Annedore Müller-Hofstede mentions a delivery of porcelain made to Ignaz Preissler on 17th October 1729, namely 172 pieces of white porcelain, which were not easy to obtain in this quantity at that time. Preissler was to paint these pieces for the Count of Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky. The dinner service items were to be painted in red and gold with "Indian grotesques" and the other items with Oriental landscapes in black and gold. It can be assumed that this rare slop bowl originates from the service.

Provenance

Acquired from Christie's London, 16th December 2021, lot 90.

Literature

The motif upon which this design is based published in Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord. Meissener Porzellanmalerei und ihre grafischen Vorlagen, vol. 2, Dresden 2018, no. 422 (Kupferstich-Kabinett SKD).
For more on the service for Count Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky see Müller-Hofstede, Der schlesisch-böhmische Hausmaler Ignaz Preissler, in: Keramos 100/1983, p. 5.