A Meissen porcelain tête à tête in the original case - image-1
A Meissen porcelain tête à tête in the original case - image-2
A Meissen porcelain tête à tête in the original case - image-1A Meissen porcelain tête à tête in the original case - image-2

Lot 925 Dα

A Meissen porcelain tête à tête in the original case

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 10.000 € - 12.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain tête à tête in the original case

Comprised of three vessels and a sugar pot with covers, two cups and saucers. Finely painted with flower garlands hung from pink ribbons. Blue crossed swords mark with star and subsidiary marks 4, BI (possibly the painter's signature), dreher's nos. The teapot handle and the finials of the teapot and milk jug reattached. Red wool lining of the case an older, defective replacement. H coffee pot 15.5 cm, leather case with gilt metal mountings H 17.8, W 46.5, D 31.5 cm.
Late 18th C., decor attributed to Johanna Friedericka Bachmann.

Provenance

German private collection.

Literature

For this painter see Rückert, Biographische Daten der Meißener Manufakturisten des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1990, p. 137.