Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 31
A Meissen part service, circa 1735-40
7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,375 inc. premium
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Meissen part service, circa 1735-40
Each piece moulded with basketwork rims and painted with the 'koreanischer Löwe or 'Ch'i-lin' pattern of a winged dragon facing a beetle by flowering plants and a crane in flight overhead, comprising: twelve plates (approx. 23cm), two circular dishes (29.5cm and 34.2cm), one circular tureen and cover and two cutlery handles fitted with later gilt-metal knife blades (the handles 7cm), the tureen and cover: 25cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, various impressed Dreher's marks and two plates with impressed numerals, the dishes incised 2 and 3, respectively, the larger dish impressed 22, (the dishes each with a rim chip, some stacking wear) (18)
Footnotes
A similar tureen and cover is in the Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim, published by J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), no. 395; for a discussion of the pattern, derived from a Chinese Famille verte design, see p. 370.
