Durch Feuer verwandelt / Transformed by Fire A Private Collection of Early Meissen
Durch Feuer verwandelt / Transformed by Fire A Private Collection of Early Meissen
A Meissen Teabowl and Saucer, Circa 1724
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July 1, 12:43 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen Teabowl and Saucer, Circa 1724
from a “halbfigur service”, the teabowl painted with a figure flying two birds and a lady holding a fan, the saucer with a couple, within gilt shaped-quatrefoil cartouches, the edges enclosing Böttger lustre sections, issuing iron-red scrolling foliage shaded with lustre, within borders of gilt scrolls, the interior of the teabowl with a cut `salami` roundels, the underside of the saucer with concentric iron-red circles, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue to edges of footrims, Dreher’s mark /
the saucer 5 1/16 in.,12.8 cm. diameter; the teabowl 4.4 cm. high
Eine Teeschale mit Untertasse, Meissener Porzellan, um 1724
Christie's London, 5 October 1981, lot 155 (part)
Hermann Jedding, Meissner Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1982, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, no. 61.
Ulrich Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellanaus einer Privatsammlung, exhibition catalogue, Lübeck, 1993, pp. 52-3, no. 38.
Ulrich Pietsch, Johann Gregorious Höroldt 1696-1775 und die Meissener Porzellanmalerie, exhibition catalogue, 1996, nos. 74-75.
Ulrich Pietsch and Claudia Banz, Triumph der blauen Schwerter: Meissener Porzellan für Adel und Bürgertum 1710-1815, exhibition catalogue, 2010, no. 53.
'Half figure'-type decoration is often regarded as the finest produced at Meissen in the mid-1720s, and painterly style has traditionally been ascribed to the hand of Johann Gregorius Höroldt.
The present teabowl and saucer and the previous lot were once part of a larger service comprising a teapot and stand, a tea canister, an oval sugar box, a waste bowl, a milk jug, a spoon tray and six teabowls and saucers, when sold at Christie's London, 5 October, 1981, lots 147-156. Of the known pieces which fall into this category there are slight differences in the puce and iron-red scroll work, and scale of the painted figures which could suggest that at least two services were painted in this manner. An assembled service of seventeen pieces incorporating pieces, possibly from two services, was in The Marouf Collection, sold at Bonhams London, 5 December 2012, lot 19.
Other recorded 'half figure service' pieces include an oval sugar box and cover is in the Ludwig Collection, Bamberg, illustrated in Lothar Hennig, Glanz des Barock, 1995, p. 128, no. 127. Two two-handled beakers and stands, and two teabowls and saucers are in the Wark Collection, illustrated in Ulrich Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, The Wark Collection from The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 2011, pp. 140-141, nos. 112-115. A teapot stand sold Lempertz Cologne, 15 May 2018, lot 740
A slightly earlier service than the abovementioned is recorded, from which a teapot and four teabowls and saucers were sold at Christie's Geneva, 13 May 1985, lots 181-183.