A Meissen porcelain tea service with Watteau motifs - image-1
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Lot 907 Dα

A Meissen porcelain tea service with Watteau motifs

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 6.500 € - 7.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain tea service with Watteau motifs

Comprising a teapot and sugar box with covers, four cups and saucers. Each decorated with finely painted courtly figures, couples, pilgrims, musicians and a harlequin alternating with naturalistically painted flowers. Blue crossed swords mark, 44 in purple. Two chips to the rim of the sugar pot's lid. Th elid of the teapot restored. H teapot 11.7 cm.
Around 1750 - 60.

This design of naturalistic branch handles was adopted as a kind of trademark in the cups and vessels produced in the porcelain manufactory of the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky as of 1761. The motif is also often found in the early products of KPM - the Prussian king seems to have liked it.

Literature

Cf. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710 - 1810, Munich 1966, cat. no. 384 ff for items from a similarly decorated service with yellow instead of celadon ground, in the former collection of Dr. Ernst Schneider.