A rare Meissen porcelain part tea and coffee service, circa 1730
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June 24, 12:30 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
painted in underglaze-blue with gilt-edged stylized strapwork panels, enriched in enamels with large branches of flowering indianische Blumen, the shapes with small scattered insects, with diaper cell and half-flowerhead borders at the rims above double concentric lines in underglaze-blue, the undersides of the saucers with iron-red flowering branches, comprising:
a coffeepot and cover,
a teapot and cover,
a hexagonal tea canister and cover,
an oval sugar box and cover,
and six teabowls and saucers,
crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised X to teapot and sugar box, incised II to teabowls and saucers
(20)
Height of coffeepot 7 ¼ in; 18,5 cm
Anonymous sale, Metz, Heidelberg, 23 October 2004, lot 460;
Acquired at the above sale.
Further pieces from a closely related service decorated in this pattern are preserved in the collection at Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha, including a coffeepot, inv. no. P11/I. A sugar bowl painted in the pattern from the Schnieder Collection is illustrated in Julia Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Schloss Lustheim, Band II, Munich 2013, p. 91, cat. no. 70. A closely related tea and coffee service, decorated in the same pattern, was sold at Sotheby’s, London, 5 June 1980, lot 270.
