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Lot 1611 Dα

A Meissen porcelain tureen with rare Chinoiserie decor

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 2.500 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain tureen with rare Chinoiserie decor

Oval vessel with handles issuing from ram's head mascarons. The original lid with a crown and pine cone finial. Decorated with a dragon, bamboo, Oriental flowers and a standing crane. Unglazed base with blue crossed swords mark with dash. With minor retouches to the gilding, a minor chip to the finial. H 31.3, W 30.3 cm.
After 1814.

Provenance

Otto Valentiner art dealers, Wiesbaden.
Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

For this form cf. Arnold/Diefenbacher (ed.), Meissener Blaumalerei aus drei Jahrhunderten, Leipzig 1989, cat. no. 186 (Porzellansammlung Dresden inv. no. P.E. 601).