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Lot 47*
2 May 2013, 13:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£30,000 - £50,000
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An extremely rare Meissen teabowl and saucer from the 'Black- and Gold-Striped' service, circa 1735
Superbly painted, perhaps by A.F. von Löwenfinck, the centre of the saucer with a landscape vignette depicting a recumbent fantasy animal flanked by shrubs, a gold and black-striped border around the edge of the well, the brown-edged, wavy rim painted in enamels and gilding with a continuous landscape scene depicting European and chinoiserie figures, the teabowl with a similar decoration, 21.5cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
the bowl: 4.8cm high; the saucer: 13cm diam., crosser swords mark in underglaze-blue to both teabowl and saucer, (2)
the bowl: 4.8cm high; the saucer: 13cm diam., crosser swords mark in underglaze-blue to both teabowl and saucer, (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Probably Baron L. de Zoubaloff Collection, Moscow, to 1918;
Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 154
This cup and saucer comes from a tea and coffee service and matching table service which are variously dated between 1735-40, of which a large portion was until 1918 in the possession of Baron de Zoubaloff in Moscow. It has been suggested (U. Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt (1996), p. 230) that the service may have been delivered to the Russian Court). The painting on some pieces has been attributed to Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, who left the Meissen manufactory in 1736, though the presence of impressed numerals on some pieces proves that at least some of the service must date to 1739 or later.
Numerous plates and dishes from the service remain in the State Museum of Ceramics in Kuskovo Palace in Moscow, a massive charger is in the Hermitage collection in St Petersburg. Other pieces from the service were sold after the Russian Revolution. Several items were sold by the Soviet government at auction in Berlin in 1930 (Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 21-22 October 1930).
A plate from the same service was sold in these Rooms from the Hoffmeister Collection, 24 November 2010, lot 40.
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