Lot 5
  • 5

A RARE MEISSEN POURING BOWL AND COVER CIRCA 1731-36

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • length over handle 10 3/8 in.
  • 26.3 cm
molded with a foliate spout and knopped, faceted handle to one side, painted in underglaze-blue with the 'Onion Pattern,' crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised Dreher's mark for Johann Christian Dietrich.  Very minor shallow chip to knop rim and restored chip to spout. 

Provenance

Sold, Sotheby's, London, December 2, 2003, lot 17

Exhibited

Honenberg, Deutsches Porzellanmuseum, Impulse, 1995, cat.no. 14

Condition

Cover: 1/8 in. chip to edge of knop on cover and two ¼ in. chips to inner flange of cover. Bowl: end section of spout is restored. Restoration is well done. Otherwise in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

The Weißdreher Johann Christian Deitrich (1698-1757) was active at the Meissen manufactory from 1731 to at least 1736 - see Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, p. 76.  Another example of this wöchnerrinenterrine form is illustrated by Bernhard von Barsewisch, "Unterglasurblaue Malerei," in Keramos, 121/1988, ill.30.