Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 36A
A Meissen yellow-ground part tea service, circa 1735
7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,845 inc. premium
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Meissen yellow-ground part tea service, circa 1735
Painted in purple camaieu with Kauffahrtei scenes of merchants and their wares by a quayside, as well as estuary and river scenes. on the saucers within iron-red concentric circles and on the remaining pieces in quatrelobe reserves, further decorated with purple indianische Blumen insects and birds reserved on the yellow ground, comprising: a teapot and cover, a lobed quadrangular tea canister and cover, two teabowls and saucers and a lobed teapot stand, the tea canister: 12cm high, crossed swords marks in blue and underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's marks for Johann Gottlieb Kühnel, Gottfried Bergmann and Johann Christoph Pietzsch and another unidentified (spout of teapot slightly reduced, one teabowl with a haircrack) (9)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Brigitte Britzke Collection, Bad Pyrmont
Literature:
Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Bad Pyrmonter Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue (2002), p. 56;
La Porcelana de Meissen en la Colección Britzke/Das Meissner Porzellan der Britzke-Sammlung, exhibition catalogue (2009), p. 78
Exhibited:
Museum im Schloss, Bad Pyrmont, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Bad Pyrmonter Privatbesitz, 28 November 2002 to 26 January 2003;
Fundación Caja Segovia, La Porcelana de Meissen en la Colección Britzke 1709-1765, 16 July to 18 November 2009
