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Lot 1154 Dα

A Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer with merchant navy and calendar decor

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 2.000 € - 2.500 €
Result: 2.520 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer with merchant navy and calendar decor

Each decorated with a typical early merchant scene in a gilt lace cartouche, the reverse painted with a fragment of a calendar page in sepia. Gold mark 35., dreher's mark /. With a c. 2.5 cm crack to the glaze on the right of the merchant scene in the tea bowl. D saucer 12.6 cm.
The porcelain c. 1723, decorated soon after, attributed to Johann George Heintze.

According to Rainer Rückert, Johann George Heintze, who was probably born in Dresden around 1706/07, began his apprenticeship as a painter at the Meissen manufactory on 24th June 1720 and became its "first boy" after Hoeroldt arrived. Ulrich Pietsch attributes these early, atmospheric merchant navy scenes with small, minimal figures to him.

Provenance

Christie's London, 7th June 1997, lot 296.
Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

A vessel from the same service auctioned by Christie's London, 17. June, 1997, lot 27. A further vessel with similar decor and gold painter's no. 38. illus. in cat. Frühes Meissener Porzellan, Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen, Munich, 1997, cat. no. 165.
Cf. the calendar sheet in Pietsch, Passion for Meissen, Sammlung Said und Roswitha Marouf, Stuttgart 2010, cat. no. 59.