Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 15*
A rare Meissen Hausmaler teabowl and saucer, circa 1720-30
6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £12,750 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A rare Meissen Hausmaler teabowl and saucer, circa 1720-30
Decorated in the workshop of Ignaz Priessler, Kronstadt (Bohemia), in polychrome enamels with chinoiserie scenes, the saucer depicting two figures seated at a table and a standing figure holding a parasol, flanked by pierced rockwork and trees, the teabowl with a continuous landscape scene with six chinoiserie figures and pagoda-like buildings flanking pierced rockwork, the saucer: 12.6cm diam.; the teabowl: 4.5cm high (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Hugo von Kilényi (1840-1924), Budapest (sold Ernst Museum, Budapest, 26 November 1917, lot 639);
Anon. sale, Christies Geneva, 10 November 1986, lot 203;
The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen Porcelain
Other recorded teabowls and saucers with similar polychrome decoration: a teabowl and saucer formerly in the Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection (published by R. Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as collected by Otto Blohm (1953), no. 107; a teabowl and saucer formerly in the Margarete Oppenheim Collection (sold by J. Böhler, Munich, 18-22 May 1936, lot 930; a teabowl and saucer formerly in the Jacques Mühsam Collection, Berlin (sold at Glückselig, Vienna, 27-30 April 1925, lot 474; a saucer in the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (possibly the Mühsam example), published by M. Chilton/C. Lehner-Jobst, Fired by Passion vol. III (2009), no. 55.
