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A very rare early Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1722-23
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5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £20,000
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A very rare early Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1722-23
Painted with vignettes depicting figures from the Commedia dell'Arte flanked by flowering bushes, the saucer depicting Pantalone within three iron-red concentric circles, the teabowl with a female on one side and a male on the reverse above iron-red lines, the inside with an iron-red vignette of flowering bushes within concentric circles, gilt-edged rims (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Dr. Siegfried Ducret, Kilchberg
Literature:
S. Ducret, Vorbilder für Porzellanmalereien, in Keramos 44 (1969), pp. 13ff., ill. 3;
U. Kiby, Die Küche der Amalienburg im Schloßgarten von Nymphenburg zu München, in Kermaos 108 (1995), p. 79, ill. 73;
U. Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775 und die Meissener Porzellan-Malerei (1996), nos. 20-21
Exhibited:
Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, 4 August-20 October 1996, nos. 20-21
Several other pieces from this rare early service are recorded: two teabowls and saucers in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (Pietsch 1996, nos. 16-19); a teapot and cover in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin (Pietsch 1996, no. 15); a coffee pot and cover in a private collection (formerly in the Marouf Collection, sold in these Rooms, 2 May 2013, lot 2); and two saucers, formerly in the Hoffmeister Collection (sold in these Rooms, 25 November 2009, lots 3 and 4). A teapot and cover with similar decoration - perhaps from a different service - is in the Warda Stevens Stout Collection (C.H. Nelson/ L. Roberts, A History of Eighteenth-Century Porcelain (2013), cat. no. 21).
In a letter of 28th August 1722 to Augustus the Strong, J.G. Höroldt wrote that he has delivered "3 Service ... von gantz extraordinarer Arbeit" [3 services of extraordinary work], and that "er wüntschete von den letzten Carnevals-Banden die Zeichnung, deren Kleider, umb solche aufs Service zumahlen" [he requests drawings of the costumes of the last carnival groups in order to paint them on a service] (quoted by R. Rückert, Biographische Daten der Meißener Manufakturisten des 18. Jahrhunderts (1990), p. 159).
Saleroom notices
Please note, there are scattered areas of re-gilding along the gilt rims.
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