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A rare Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with ominaeshi and butterfly motifs

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
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A rare Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with ominaeshi and butterfly motifs

Octagonally lobed model with rocaille handle and finely painted mascarons. Decorated with motifs based on Japanese designs. Blue crossed swords mark, embosser's mark with three circles (cup) for Johann Gottlieb Kühnel and a star (saucer) for Paul Wildenstein. H of cup 6.2, W saucer 17.6 cm.
Around 1735 - 39.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia, acquired in 1986 from Hans H. Mischell, Cologne.

Literature

For more on this decor see Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710 - 1810, Munich 1966, cat. no. 248.
See also Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. no. 145 ff.