OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE | Property from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold, sold to benefit The Arnhold Foundation
A MEISSEN YELLOW-GROUND TEABOWL AND SAUCER, CIRCA 1735-40
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August 12, 04:48 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE
Property from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold, sold to benefit The Arnhold Foundation
A MEISSEN YELLOW-GROUND TEABOWL AND SAUCER, CIRCA 1735-40
painted in the manner of Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, with polychrome Chinoiserie scenes of figures engaged in various pursuits, the scenes on the teabowl in quatrefoil panels, the interior with a flower, brown edged-rims, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, teabowl with impressed Dreher's mark + for Andreas Schiefer; saucer with a crescent moon for Johann Gottlob Pietzsch, Jr. (Rückert, 1990, p. 126 and 123)
diameter of saucer 5⅛ in.
13 cm
Andreina Torre Collection, Zürich
The Estate of the late Andreina Torre; Christie's Geneva, November 16, 1992, lot 160
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New York 2008, no. 79, p. 306, illus.