Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 57
A Meissen Chinoiserie group of a family, mid 18th century
7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,550 inc. premium
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Meissen Chinoiserie group of a family, mid 18th century
Modelled by P. Reinicke, the seated mother wearing floral robes over a purple skirt, a child holding a parasol seated on her left knee, a second child with a parasol on her right, the base applied with leaves and flowers, 14.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (one parasol replaced)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Brigitte Britzke Collection, Bad Pyrmont, sold in these Rooms, 14 Dec 2016, lot 80
Literature:
Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Bad Pyrmonter Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue (2002), p. 191;
La Porcelana de Meissen en la Colección Britzke/Das Meissner Porzellan der Britzke-Sammlung, exhibition catalogue (2009), p. 341
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
Based on the engraving by J.J. Balechou, after Boucher's 'Les Délices de l'Enfance; see E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century, vol. I (1972), p. 112, for another example in the Pauls Collection.
