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Lot 64

A Meissen 'café au lait'-ground Hausmaler coffee pot and cover, circa 1750

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£1,500 - £2,000

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A Meissen 'café au lait'-ground Hausmaler coffee pot and cover, circa 1750

Decorated in underglaze-blue, and in the workshop of F.J. Ferner in gilding and enamels, the exterior depicting a seated lady playing the lute, the reverse with her seated companion, flanked by their sheep, the cover with a pastoral landscape, the border of the pot covered with lacework gilding, 20.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed number 62 (2)

Footnotes

Literature:
R. Röntgen, The Book of Meissen (1984), pl. 222;
U. Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung (1993), no. 97

Exhibited:
Lübeck, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck - St. Annen-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung', 14 November 1993-31 January 1994;
Aachen, Museen der Stadt Aachen - Couven Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung', 26 February-20 April 1994

A milk jug from the same service is in the Wark Collection (illustrated by U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, the Wark Collection (2011), no. 664).

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