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Lot 1450 Dα

A porcelain dish with a merchant navy scene

Auction 1096 - overview Cologne
17.11.2017, 10:00 - Deorative Arts
Estimate: 2.000 € - 2.500 €
Result: 2.480 € (incl. premium)
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A porcelain dish with a merchant navy scene

Border and centre decorated with a finely painted harbour scene in black schwarzlot with incised outlines and picked out in gilt. Unmarked, mass mark / to the basal ring. A rim chip to the underside to the 5 o'clock position, minor wear to the gilding. D 12.5 cm.
Presumably Meissen, ca. 1720; decor attributed to Ignaz Preissler, 1720s/1730s.

Provenance

Private collection, South Germany.

Literature

Pieces with similar harbour scenes in the Hans Syz Collection (cat.: Washington 1979, Vol. I, no. 351 f.), here with references to the designs by the Nuremberg based painters Johann Schaper and Johann Ludwig Faber.