A Nymphenburg porcelain tea and coffee service with hunting motifs
Coffee and teapot (models 213 and 243) and sugar bowl (model 258) with original lids, milk jug (model 226) and six cups (model 282) with original saucers (model 325). Very finely painted with deer, stags, dogs and wolves. Impressed "rautenschild" mark (except coffee pot), various incised and impressed marks, red 4 (coffee pot). One cup with yellowed restoration, handle of the milk jug and finial of the sugar bowl reattached, a chip to the bottom edge of the sugar bowl. Coffee pot with lid H 25 cm, teapot with lid H 18 cm.
Around 1820 - 1826, decor attributed to Benno Keim, based on models by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698 - 1767).
Benno Keim (1798 - 1826) began working as a painter's assistant in Nymphenburg in 1816. He specialized in depictions of animals and hunting motifs. The signed vase in the collection of the Bavarian National Museum shows a lying ram in front of a broken tree. The style is similar in execution to the decor of the service offered here, which gives grounds for the attribution.
Literature
These models published in Hantschmann, Nymphenburger Porzellan 1797 to 1847, Munich-Berlin 1996, pp. 111 - 151.
Similar animal motifs on two satyr head vases with monogram "B.K." for Benno Keim, ibid., cat. 160. See also another vase with the same hunting decor in the Bavarian National Museum collection, inv. no. L 2016/216.