Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
A RARE MEISSEN CHINOISERIE COFFEE POT AND COVER CIRCA 1725-28
Auction Closed
April 16, 08:57 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
THE COLLECTION OF MELINDA AND PAUL SULLIVAN
A RARE MEISSEN CHINOISERIE COFFEE POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1725-28
painted with chinoiserie panels including a figure riding on the back of a water buffalo, within Böttger-lustre cartouches embellished with iron-red and puce scrollwork, separated by branches of indianische Blumen, with a band of gilded scrollwork at the rim, the cover with a continuous scene of groups of chinoiserie figures, crossed swords mark in underglaze blue, gilded numeral 1. to both
height 7⅞ in.
20 cm
The unusual buffalo scene appears on a milk or water jug from a tea service painted by J. G. Höroldt, formerly in the Collection of Queen Marie of Hanover, now in the Wark Collection, at the Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, illustrated in Ulrich Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, The Wark Collection, London, 2011, p. 165, cat no. 143. The standing and seated figures on the reverse side likely derive from plates 40 and 97 of the Schulz-Codex.