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Lot 844 Dα

Items from a Fürstenberg porcelain service with monkey motifs

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 4.284 € (incl. premium)
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Items from a Fürstenberg porcelain service with monkey motifs

Comprised of a round sugar bowl with domed lid, a tea and coffee cup with saucers. Finely painted with costumed singerie motifs on landscape islands. Blue mark F, various incised marks. Minor chips to the finial. H box 11,5 cm.
Around 1765 - 70, decor attributed to C. G. Albert.

Depictions of costumed monkeys can already be found in the paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the 16th century. David Teniers the Younger and Abraham Teniers also depicted anthropomorphic animals. The motifs gained considerable popularity in the 18th century, especially through the famous Singerie designs executed by Christophe Huet for the Château de Chantilly in 1737. Johann Joachim Kaendler and Peter Reinicke created the famous Monkey Band for the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory between the years 1753 and 1765.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia, acquired in 1972 from Hans H. Mischell, Cologne.

Literature

Cf. Ducret, Fürstenberger Porzellan. II Geschirre, Braunschweig 1965, fig. 261 f., for the teapot from this service in the Victoria and Albert Museum London (acc. no. 367&A-1902) and another cup and saucer in the USA.