Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
A MEISSEN TEAPOT AND COVER CIRCA 1740
Auction Closed
April 16, 08:57 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
THE COLLECTION OF MELINDA AND PAUL SULLIVAN
A MEISSEN TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1740
modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler, of ovoid form affixed with a scroll spout with male mask terminal and a scroll handle affixed with a female head thumbrest, painted with a continuous landscape of European figures by a river, with molded basketwork at the shoulder, the flat cover reserving two landscape vignettes, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
height 4⅜ in.
11.2 cm
Kändler's Taxa or work record for April 1738 includes 'in Gestalt eine jungen Mannes Köpfgens, welcher einen Hut auf hat, auf dessen Spitzen sich der Coffe ausgeißt und hat um den Hals ein Kräglein'. A coffee pot of this type and decoration perhaps related to the present lot is in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden, inventory number P.E. 2086 a, b, illustrated in Ulrich Pietsch and Claudia Banz (ed.), Triumph of the Blue Swords, Dresden, 2010, pp. 218-219, cat. no. 114. A tea and coffee service with forms of this type, decorated with large insect studies, was in the Collection of the Dukes of Baden, sold at Sotheby's, Baden-Baden, October 18, 1995, lot 1296.
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.