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Lot 1038 Dα

A museum quality Meissen porcelain dish from the Bern service

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 27.720 € (incl. premium)
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A museum quality Meissen porcelain dish from the Bern service

Gilded inside and out and decorated with scenes of a doctor, patient and a pastor at a sickbed and a scene from debtor's prison on the reverse in reserves. Unmarked. Local losses and retouching in the painting, minimal signs of wear on the gold rim. H 8.5, diameter 18.3 cm.
The porcelain fired before 1723, decor attributed to Abraham Seuter, c. 1740.

Siegfried Ducret has identified this bowl as being part of a service with gold ground and decor by Abraham Seuter, which was successively brought to market in 1963 at the Bernese gallery of Jürg Stucker. The unique quality of the painting and the extensive gilding suggest a wealthy patron. The subjects of the sickbed and the debtor's prison seem unusual to us today, but were familiar to contemporary viewers through the engravings of William Hogarth.

Provenance

Collection of M. Harris, Liverpool.
Hans H. Mischell, Cologne.
Private collection, Westphalia since 1976.

Literature

Illus. in Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, vol. II, Braunschweig 1971, illus. 260 and 263.
Cf. cat. Frühes Meissner Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen, Munich 1997, no. 76 f.