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Lot 1339 Dα

A Meissen porcelain tea caddy with Chinoiseries

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain tea caddy with Chinoiseries

Painted with two figures in landscapes surrounded by Oriental flowers and insects. Dreher's mark of Andreas Schiefer. With craquelure and glaze wear, a chip to the rim. H 10.3 cm.
Around 1730 - 35, decorated in the style of Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia.

Literature

An identical angular tea caddy with a mythological beast motif in the Winckelmann Museum Stendal Collection, inv. no. WM-IV-A-427.

For more on this type of chinoiseries, see den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2000, cat. no. 197 ff., see also Pietsch (ed.), Phantastische Welten. Malerei auf Porzellan und deutschen Fayencen von Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck 1714 - 1754, Dresden-Stuttgart 2014, cat. no. 51 ff.