Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 87*
A rare Meissen covered two-handled beaker and saucer, circa 1730-35
9 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £8,287.50 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A rare Meissen covered two-handled beaker and saucer, circa 1730-35
Each painted with European landscape scenes within gilt quatrelobe scrollwork cartouches embellished with iron-red and purple scrollwork. the handles gilt between painted sprigs of indianische Blumen, the reverse of the saucer with similar sprigs and insects in iron-red, gilt ball finial to cover, the beaker and saucer with gilt scroll- and strapwork borders, the saucer: 13.6cm diam.; beaker and cover: 11cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 1. to all three pieces, impressed former's marks for Johann Martin Kittel und J.E. Grund Senior (3)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 3 June 1974, lot 70 (part);
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Zürich, 1 June 1994, lot 70
Literature:
M. Newman, Die deutschen Porzellanmaufakturen, I (1977), ill. 30;
D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Sammlung Hoffmeister, I (1999), p. 170;
U. Pietsch/K. Jakobsen, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1997), no. 182
Exhibited:
Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 19 January-6 April 1997;
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Albertinum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 7 May-13 July 1997
