STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
Property from a Private Connecticut Collection
A MEISSEN LARGE CIRCULAR DISH FROM THE 'GELBER LOWE' SERVICE, AND A MEISSEN KAKIEMON COFFEE POT AND COVER, CIRCA 1735-45
Auction Closed
October 25, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Connecticut Collection
A MEISSEN LARGE CIRCULAR DISH FROM THE 'GELBER LOWE' SERVICE, AND A MEISSEN KAKIEMON COFFEE POT AND COVER, CIRCA 1735-45
each painted in Kakiemon style with a tiger curling round a blue bamboo shoot facing flowering prunus branches issuing from a tree-stump, crossed swords mark in underglaze blue, K[önigliche]•H[of]•K[onditorei]• pantry mark in purple enamel, impressed numeral 22; the coffee pot of lobed form, painted with the 'Three Friends of Winter' pattern, with prunus, pine and bamboo issuing from rockwork, crossed swords mark in underglaze blue.
height of coffee pot 8 ½ in.; diameter of dish 13 ⅛ in.
21.6 cm ; 33.3 cm
Coffee pot: Guest & Gray London, bearing label
Sotheby’s Scientific Research department used non-invasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.