26 May 2010
10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street
The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part Two
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The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part Two
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A Meissen beaker and saucer
circa 1725
Painted with early European landscape scenes, the beaker with three figures by an arch with a ship in the background, on the reverse an estuary scene with a figure in a boat and a ship in the distance, the saucer with a Kauffahrtei scene of a merchant with two plumed pack horses by a quayside, each within a quatrelobe gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and embellished with iron-red foliate scrollwork, the rims with gilt C-scroll borders, the saucer with three concentric iron-red circles on the reverse, the saucer: 12.7cm diam., the beaker: 7.8cm high, gilt numeral 17. to both, incised / inside footrim of saucer (2)
Painted with early European landscape scenes, the beaker with three figures by an arch with a ship in the background, on the reverse an estuary scene with a figure in a boat and a ship in the distance, the saucer with a Kauffahrtei scene of a merchant with two plumed pack horses by a quayside, each within a quatrelobe gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and embellished with iron-red foliate scrollwork, the rims with gilt C-scroll borders, the saucer with three concentric iron-red circles on the reverse, the saucer: 12.7cm diam., the beaker: 7.8cm high, gilt numeral 17. to both, incised / inside footrim of saucer (2)
Sold for
£7,200
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Acquired in 1990
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 69
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Five more beakers and saucers from the same service were sold by Christie's London, 13 March 1989, lots 186-187; and 14th May 1990, lots 71-72.
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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