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Lot 1565 D α

Three Meissen porcelain dishes with rare underglaze blue Chinoiserie decor

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
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Three Meissen porcelain dishes with rare underglaze blue Chinoiserie decor

Blue crossed swords mark with dot and Mö, dreher's number 12. Restorations to four rim chips. D ca. 18.5 cm.
The porcelain Meissen, around 1760 - 1774, the decor attributed to Peter Kolmberger and Johann-Carl Möbius, among others.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

All illus. in Schneider (ed.), "Kobaltblau" Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus einer rheinischen Privatsammlung, Aachen 2001, cat. no. 6,7 and 8.
For more on the history of this service see Hermann Reiff, Unterglasurblaue Chinoiserien nach Höroldt-Vorlagen, in: Keramos 111/86, p. 19 ff., and v. Barsewisch, Unterglasurblaue Malerei, in: Keramos 121/1988, illus. 120 ff, p. 84 ff.
See also Zumbulyadis/von Barewisch/Reiff, Chinese Fantasies: A Most Unusual Chinoiserie Meissen Dinner Service in Underglaze-Blue, in: The Journal of American Ceramic Circle, XV/2009, pp. 46-61.

Exhibitions

Couven-Museum Aachen 30th June to 30th September 2001.
LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur Münster 2001.