A Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer with bamboo and peony decor - image-1

Lot 1197 Dα

A Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer with bamboo and peony decor

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 756 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer with bamboo and peony decor

Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's mark with two arrows. Localised losses of pigment in the brown borders. D saucer 12.2 cm.
C. 1735-40.

Almost all Kakiemon inspired pattern of the 1720s and 1730s, produced at the order of Count Hoym and the merchant Lemaire in Meissen, can be traced back to East Asian models in the inventory of the Japanese Palace. Only the decoration presented here is not found on any Japanese tableware. Nevertheless, the Elector seemed to like the composition, because in 1740 he commissioned the manufactory to produce an identically painted service for the Spanish envoy in Venice, Don Luigi Reggio e Branciforte Prince of Campoflorido.

Provenance

Lempertz Cologne auction 741, 22nd May 1997, lot 73. -
Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Cf. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, Munich 2013, vol. II, cat. 167 ff.