A Meissen Hausmaler rectangular tea canister, mid 18th century
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A Meissen Hausmaler rectangular tea canister, mid 18th century
Decorated in the workshop of F.F. Mayer of Pressnitz, with a continuous scene depicting hussar officers on horseback and a fallen foe, the shoulders with gilt trellis panels flanked by scrollwork, 10.5cm high, crossed swords mark and dash in blue (cover lacking)
Sold for £2,375 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Francis Wormald Collection, sold by Sotheby's London, 26 April 1949, lot 27 (part)

    Similar scenes on two cups and saucers in the Georg Tillmann Collection, Hamburg, are published by G. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler (1925), II, ills. 327 and 328. A similarly painted saucer was in the Rudolf Just Collection, Prague (published by R. Just, Neue Forschungen über die Pressnitzer Porzellan-Hausmalerei, in Mitteilungsblatt der Keramikfreunde der Schweiz 46 (1959), pl, XI, ill. 27).

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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