An early Meissen porcelain teabowl with a palace inventory number - image-1
An early Meissen porcelain teabowl with a palace inventory number - image-2
An early Meissen porcelain teabowl with a palace inventory number - image-1An early Meissen porcelain teabowl with a palace inventory number - image-2

Lot 770 Dα

An early Meissen porcelain teabowl with a palace inventory number

Auction 1117 - overview Cologne
16.11.2018, 10:30 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.232 € (incl. premium)
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An early Meissen porcelain teabowl with a palace inventory number

Thin-walled circular cup with original saucer. Finely painted with the "three friends of winter" motif (pine, bamboo, and plum) and a small plum sprig to the well. Blue enamelled crossed swords mark, engraved N=243 w., the cup with potter's mark of Johann Martin Kittel jun.
1729 - 31.

Literature

For this motif cf.: Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, p. 237 ff. Cf. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 200, no. 169.