A Meissen porcelain teapot monogrammed JEH - image-1
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Lot 1549 Dα

A Meissen porcelain teapot monogrammed JEH

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 8.125 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain teapot monogrammed JEH

Bombé-form vessel with spout issuing from a mascaron. The shoulder decorated with a lambrequin motif and the lid with prunus sprig reliefs. Monogrammed over crossed palm fronds, with a head of Diana flanked by trelliswork motifs to the reverse. Unmarked. With restored chips to the spout and edge of the lid, the tip of the finial lost, minor wear to the gilding. H 10.5 cm.
The porcelain Meissen, around 1720, the model presumably by Johann Jacob Irminger, decor attributed to Johann Friedrich Metzsch (1706 - 1766).

Provenance

From the property of a South German aristocrat.

Literature

This model with rose reliefs in Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz, Hamburg 1982, cat. no. 28.
Similar trelliswork decor by Metzsch in Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler, vol. 1, Leipzig 1925/Reprint Stuttgart 1971, illus. 225 ff.