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 Rare Meissen Octagonal Teabowl and Saucer, Circa 1725-30
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July 1, 12:30 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A Rare Meissen Octagonal Teabowl and Saucer, Circa 1725-30
painted in the Kakiemon palette, the centre of the saucer and interior of the teabowl in purpurmalerei with a diaper pattern roundels reserved with chrysanthemum, within concentric circles below scattered flowerheads and trefoil arrangements of leaves, incised / to foot rings, engraved Japanese Palace inventory numbers N=352-/w
the saucer 5 5/16 in., 13.5 cm. wide
Eine achteckige Teeschale und Untertasse, Meissener Porzellan, um 1725-30
The Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden
Ulrich Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellanaus einer Privatsammlung, exhibition catalogue, Lübeck, 1993, pp. 86-7, no. 69.
The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace includes under number 352:
'Siebenzehen Stück detto [Caffeé-Tassen], etwas kleiner, nebst Unterschaalen, 1 1/2. Zoll tief, 5. Zoll in Diam: No. 352' [seventeen ditto (coffee cups), somewhat smaller, along with saucers...],
Claus Boltz, 'Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769' in Keramos, No. 153, 1996, p. 58.
Wares of this form and decoration were also recorded with inventory number 351. A similar teabowl and saucer, with a caduceus mark and number 351, was sold at Christie's London, Property of J. Thirkell Price, Esq. 31 March 1980, lot 107, and a second teabowl with number 351 is in The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, obj. no. 2010.6/Cer. Most recently a teabowl and saucer of this form and decoration, marked with 351, and 352 respectively, was sold at Bonhams London, 20 March 2013, lot 20.