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Lot 11 Dα

A rare, early Meissen porcelain coffee cup

Auction 1102 - overview Cologne
16.11.2017, 11:00 - The Klaus J. Jacobs Collection
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 4.455 € (incl. premium)
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A rare, early Meissen porcelain coffee cup

A conical cup with spout on a moulded basal ring. The original saucer with leaf-shaped handles. Decorated with a Chinoiserie landscape. Blue crossed swords mark with curved pommels, blue 7 to both pieces, saucer with dreher's mark with two dots (presumably Johann Martin Kittel the Younger), cup with cross shaped dreher's mark in an indentation. A rim chip to the spout as a result of the manufacturing process, overpainted in the manufactory. H cup 6, W of saucer 18.8 cm.
Ca. 1730.

The inventories transcriped by Claus Boltz list an identical set of cups with indianische blumen decor and AR monogramms as "Coffeé-Tassen mit Henkeln und Schnauzgen". This set was apparently delivered to the King between April 1731 and 1734. The Capuchin brown cup can be dated with relative certainty to the same period of production.

Provenance

Purchased from Röbbig art dealers, Munich.

Literature

This form mentioned in Boltz' Japanese Palace inventory in 1770 and in the Turmzimmer inventory in 1769, in: Keramos 153/1996, p. 59.
Identical cups in the Bernhard v. Barsewisch Collection and in the Wark Collection (Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London 2011, no. 82).