A MEISSEN CAFE-AU-LAIT-GROUND BOWL CIRCA 1735
Auction Closed
October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
A MEISSEN CAFE-AU-LAIT-GROUND BOWL CIRCA 1735
the exterior painted in Kakiemon style with a flowering branch of indianische Blumen issuing from pierced rockwork and a bird in flight, the interior with a flower and smaller sprigs, brown-edged rim, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark of two circles for Johann Gottlieb Kühnel (Rückert, 1990, p. 124).
Diameter: 6⅝ in.
16.8 cm
Dr. Paul von Ostermann Collection, Darmstadt and Munich
von Ostermann Collection, sold, Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, October 30 - November 2, 1928, lot 231
Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold, Dresden
Berges, 1967, p. 39, fig. 33
Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 159, p. 399, illus.
A further bowl in this rare pattern was in the Hoffmeister Collection and published in Hoffmeister, 1999, Vol. II, no. 289.
Wares of this type were inspired by Chinese famille-verte examples which were in the Royal Collection in Dresden. Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, p. 399, illustrates a Kangxi example with incised inventory number N=259-1.