Ghislaine Howard
Sale Coordinator
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Lot 18*
A Meissen chocolate beaker and saucer, circa 1730
7 December 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£1,500 - £2,500
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Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
A Meissen chocolate beaker and saucer, circa 1730
Finely painted with a harbour and hunting scene within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche edged with purple and iron-red scrollwork, panels and swags, the handle gilt, gilt scrollwork borders to rims, the beaker: 7.5cm high; the saucer: 13cm diam., crossed swords marks within concentric circles in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 1. to both, impressed Dreher's mark of two dots for Johann Martin Kittel (small haircrack to glaze surface on underside of saucer) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 26 April 1994, lot 54;
Property from a Swiss Private Collection (acquired by the present owner in the above sale)
