Lot 799 D α

A Meissen porcelain coffee pot with "hausmaler" decor

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €

A Meissen porcelain coffee pot with "hausmaler" decor

Decorated on either face with large bouquets, birds, fruit and fountain motifs on brackets hung with finely painted flower garlands. The lid with corresponding decor presumably originally from the teapot belonging to this service. Blue crossed swords mark. A firing crack below the handle, a chip to the tip of the finial. H 18.5 cm.
The porcelain Meissen, late 1720s/1730s, decor attributed to Bayreuth, Johann Friedrich Metzsch.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia, acquired in 2001 from Röbbig, Munich.

Literature

A teabowl painted with similar decor pub. in Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain. The Wark Collection, London 2011, no. 653.