A hexagonal Meissen Böttger stoneware tea caddy and cover - image-1

Lot 1321 Dα

A hexagonal Meissen Böttger stoneware tea caddy and cover

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 4.284 € (incl. premium)
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A hexagonal Meissen Böttger stoneware tea caddy and cover

Matte red Böttger stonware, dentile silver cuffs around the base, neck and lid. Baluster-form vessel with engraved ribs. Decorated with floral reliefs and birds after Asian designs. The lid with a single flower. Smoothed, unmarked base. H 12.5 cm.
Around 1710 - 15.

Provenance

Scandinavian private collection.

Literature

Cf. Syz/Jefferson Miller II/Rückert, Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Vol. I, Washington 1979, cat. no. 3.
Cf. Boltz, Steinzeug und Porzellan der Böttger-Periode, in: Keramos 167/168/2000, illus. 115 ff.
A further example in the former collection of Dr. Henry Pachter offered in Lempertz Cologne auction 879 on 18th November 2005, lot 61.
See also Lempertz Cologne auction 1075 on 18th November 2016, lot 554.