Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 47
Two Meissen small bowls, mid 18th century
7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,020 inc. premium
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Two Meissen small bowls, mid 18th century
Each decorated in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding with three panels of Oriental flowers by a fence, alternating with elaborate floral scrollwork, the interior with a circular medallion of Oriental flowers, with additional decoration outside the factory of two dragons and stylised foliage between red striped bands to the inside, and a red-striped band above a band of crosses above the footrim, 9.3cm across; 6cm high, crossed swords marks and K in underglaze-blue, impressed 2 (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Jahn Collection, Hamburg, sold at Lempertz Cologne, 12 June 1989, lot 82
Literature:
H. Jedding, Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts im Hamburger Privatbesitz (1982), nos. 129 and 130
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts im Hamburger Privatbesitz, 4 June-5 September 1982
A similar bowl without the outside decoration is in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Munich (J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, II (2013), no. 104.
