A Meissen porcelain dish from a dinner service with quilin motifs - image-1

Lot 1479 Dα

A Meissen porcelain dish from a dinner service with quilin motifs

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €

A Meissen porcelain dish from a dinner service with quilin motifs

Painted with the mythical creature, a may beetle, a peony bush and a flying heron in the centre. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's mark II and two dots for Johann Martin Kittel jun. Minor wear to the glaze. D 29.3 cm.
Around 1735.

Provenance

Newman & Newman, London.
Private collection, Palatinate.

Literature

Cf. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. no. 381.