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Lot 216

Présentoir rond en porcelaine de Meissen, vers 1740

A Meissen circular stand, circa 1740

30 – 31 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche

€3,500 - €4,000

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Présentoir rond en porcelaine de Meissen, vers 1740

A Meissen circular stand, circa 1740


Painted with a large Kauffahrtei scene in the manner of C.F. Herold depicting merchants and their wares by a quayside, within a brown-edged gilt trellis and foliate scrollwork cartouche, with four similar cartouches around the gilt-edged rim divided by gilt scrollwork borders, further painted with scattered Holzschnittblumen, insects and a butterfly, 23.6cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 22 (very minor wear)

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Provenance
The Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg, acquired in 1984 and sold at Bonhams London, 25 November 2009, lot 58

Literature
Hoffmeister, Dieter, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Sammlung Hoffmeister, vol. I, 1999, no. 89
Mauri, Luigi, Fragili Emozioni: Porcellane europee nel gusto di un collezionista lombardo, Milan, 2013, pp. 87, cat. 37

Exhibited
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Sammlung Hoffmeister, 1999-2009

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