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A rare early Meissen teabowl and saucer, decorated in the Funcke workshop in Dresden, circa 1715-20
5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,375 inc. premium
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A rare early Meissen teabowl and saucer, decorated in the Funcke workshop in Dresden, circa 1715-20
Deecorated in gilding and iron-red with vignettes depicting chinoiserie figures, sun-motifs and an insect, the interiors with burnished gilding, the underside of the saucer moulded with three flowering branches embellished in gilding, puce, green and blue, the rims with gilt saw-tooth borders edged in iron-red and - on the top rim of the saucer - gilt dots (very minor wear to gilding) (2)
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One of a small group of early Meissen porcelain, probably decorated in the workshop of Georg Funcke, Dresden, in gilding edged in iron-red, occasionally with the addition of other colours. According to Funcke's invoices for enamel colours (published by Claus Boltz, Steinzeug und Porzellan der Böttgerperiode, in Keramos 167/168 (2000), p. 143), all the colours on this teabowl and saucer were in use from 1713.
Two early beakers decorated in gilding and iron-red with similar, sinuous chinoiserie figures were in the Korthaus Collection (sold by Christie's London, 1 March 1993, lots 2 and 3; the latter was subsequently in the Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg, sold in these Rooms, 24 November 2010, lot 1). A set of five similar early beakers, with gilt and iron-red decoration executed in the Funcke workshop in Dresden was sold by Galerie Hugo Helbing in Munich, 26 May 1911, lot 130 (as Vienna); two of these beakers were sold by Sotheby's London, 18 November 2009, lot 448 (part - as Doccia) and are now in the Malcolm Gutter Collection, San Francisco (M. Santangelo, A Princely Pursuit (2018), cat. no. 16).
Other examples of this rare, early style of decoration include four teabowls and saucers with moulded acanthus leaf decoration, decorated in gilding edged in iron-red and with some purple and green enamel highlights: one is in the Malcolm Gutter Collection (formerly in the collections of Rudolf Just, Prague, and Marjorie West, Atlanta (M. Santangelo, cat. no. 34); a second is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, inv. no. C.2&A-1928; a third is in the Württembergisches Landesmuseum, inv. no. G30,14; and a fourth in the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, inv. no. 54.684a-b.
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