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Lot 810 Dα

A Meissen porcelain butter dish with famille rose decor

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.772 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain butter dish with famille rose decor

Barrel-shaped butter dish with Chinoiserie decor and slip lid. Smoothed base with faint blue crossed swords mark, embosser's no. 54. One handle reattached. H 6.5, W 14 cm.
Around 1741 - 45, model by Johann Joachim Kaendler.

Provenance

Private ownership, Frankfurt.

Röbbig, Munich.

Private collection, Westphalia since 1992.

Literature

Illus. in Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710 - 1810, Munich 1966, cat. no. 348.

For the model s. Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. no. 100. No. 100. There also the citation from Kaendler's April/May 1741 report on pieces produced after work: "1. oval butter vessel with hoop, together with lid, on which is a dainty handle".