A Meissen porcelain dish and saucer with mining motifs - image-1
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Lot 822 Dα

A Meissen porcelain dish and saucer with mining motifs

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 2.268 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain dish and saucer with mining motifs

The saucer signed "Häuer f." Crossed swords mark, dreher's nos., dish marked M in gold, saucer marked N. With minor scratches.
Around 1750, the saucer painted by Bonaventura Häuer.

Bonaventura Gottlieb Häuer (c. 1709 - 1782) came from a Freiberg mining family. Hoeroldt employed him in his painting studio in 1724. In 1744 he was cautioned for "house painting", just like Christian Friedrich Herold from Berlin, but he was also considered one of the best painters of landscapes and merchant scenes. There are also a few pieces with mining depictions signed by him, the signatures always being somewhat hidden.

Provenance

The Antique Porcelain Co. Inc. New York.
Private collection, Westphalia.

Literature

Cf. Slotta/Lehmann/Pietsch, Ein fein bergmannig Porcelan. Abbilder vom Bergbau in „weißem Gold“, Bochum 1999, cat. no. 197 ff., for a saucer with the same signature and gilt N mark under cat. no. 199.