Ghislaine Howard
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Lot 12
Cafetière couverte en porcelaine de Meissen, circa 1735
A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1735
A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1735
17 April 2024, 14:00 CEST
Paris, Avenue HocheSold for €11,520 inc. premium
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Cafetière couverte en porcelaine de Meissen, circa 1735
A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1735
A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1735
Painted with a continuous chinoiserie scene depicting, on one side, numerous figures around a table beneath a palm tree playing cards, the reverse with a group in a raised pagoda and with a dragon in flight overhead, below a band of gilt scrollwork below the gilt rim and spout, the cover similarly decorated, the handle embellished with gilding and a flower sprig, 21.7cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 13. to both, incised z inside footrim of coffee pot (spout regilt, minor flaking to gilt rims) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Riehen, Switzerland, sold Christie's Geneva, 12 November 1976, lot 184
Literature:
E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, I (1972), p. 442
