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Lot 1030 Dα

An unusual Meissen porcelain coffee pot with merchant navy scenes

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 13.860 € (incl. premium)
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An unusual Meissen porcelain coffee pot with merchant navy scenes

The original lid with a gilt ball finial. Decorated with finely painted harbour scenes in two large gilt tendril surrounds backed with purple lustre and flanked by Chinoiserie figures on brackets. The lid with a similar scene. Marked 70. in gold (vessel and lid). Two small chips to the tip of the spout, minor wear to the gilding.
The porcelain fired before 1723, decor attributed to Christian Friedrich Herold, 1725 - 30.

Provenance

Hans H. Mischell, Cologne.
Private collection, Westphalia since 1974.

Literature

Cf. Pietsch, Frühes Meißener Porzellan Sammlung Carabelli, Munich 2000, cat. no. 31 for a similarly painted jug by Herold.
A similarly painted coffee pot formerly in the Jahn Collection in Hamburg sold in Lempertz Cologne auction 641 on 12th June 1989, lot 65.