25 Nov 2009
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part 1
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The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part 1
Back to auction 18003
A very rare Meissen dish
circa 1735
The well painted with four chinoiserie vignettes, each on a gilt and Böttger lustre bracket flanked by iron-red and purple scrollwork, all within a gilt trellis-ground band, the rim with four gilt-edged quatrelobe cartouches painted with Kauffahrtei scenes of merchants and their wares by a quayside, against a band of foliate scrollwork embellished with Böttger lustre, the reverse with scattered indianische Blumen, 18.5cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark above an incised line
The well painted with four chinoiserie vignettes, each on a gilt and Böttger lustre bracket flanked by iron-red and purple scrollwork, all within a gilt trellis-ground band, the rim with four gilt-edged quatrelobe cartouches painted with Kauffahrtei scenes of merchants and their wares by a quayside, against a band of foliate scrollwork embellished with Böttger lustre, the reverse with scattered indianische Blumen, 18.5cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark above an incised line
Estimate:
£20,000 - 30,000
US$ 30,000 - 45,000
€23,000 - 35,000
US$ 30,000 - 45,000
€23,000 - 35,000
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 12 June 1984, lot 131 (one of two)
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 62
Exhibition:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Only two plates of this type of this small size are recorded: another in the Hoffmeister Collection (Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 63), and one sold by Doyle's New York, 19th October 1983, lot 283. A plate with the same decoration of a larger size (28cm diam.) was sold at Christie's London, An Important Swiss Collection of European Porcelain, 21 February 2005 lot 44, and another slightly bigger one (21.5cm diam.) was sold at Christie's London from the collection of the late Max Hoffmann, 21 November 2005, lot 216.
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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