A Meissen Tea and Coffee Service, Circa 1723-25

Lot Closed

October 17, 04:55 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Meissen Tea and Coffee Service, Circa 1725

painted with European figures at various pursuits in countryside, quayside or river scenes painted with cloudy skies, within Böttger lustre, iron-red, puce and gilt scrollwork-edged shaped quatrefoil cartouches and scattered insects and sprigs of indianische Blumen, with gilt scrollwork borders, comprising:

a coffee pot and a cover;

a teapot and cover;

an oval sugar bowl and cover;

a hexagonal tea canister and cover;

and six teabowls and saucers,

the cover of the teapot with a continuous scene of merchants with their wares, the interiors of teabowls with medallions of flowering indianische Blumen in a fenced garden, undersides of saucers with concentric circles in iron-red, crossed swords marks in blue enamel to coffee pot and sugar bowl, K.P.M mark in underglaze-blue to teapot, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue to teabowls and saucers, gilt numeral 24., teabowls and saucers with incised / to inside edges of footrims. 20 pieces.

height of coffee pot 8 1/2 in., 21.6 cm

In detail:

Three saucers broken into several sections and restored. A fourth saucer with two rim chips one of which has an associated hairline crack.

One teabowl with a rim chip

The coffeepot cover is a match.

The tea canister shoulder with typical patches of wear to gilding where cover sits.

The inside edge of the rim of the sugar bowl with two shallow chips associated to production. It's cover with some wear to an area of the scrollwork border.

Some wear to gilt-scroll borders at rims of teabowls.

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Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.