A rare Meissen porcelain pitcher with Neoclassical offering scenes - image-1
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Lot 516 Dα

A rare Meissen porcelain pitcher with Neoclassical offering scenes

Auction 1107 - overview Cologne
15.05.2018, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 3.100 € (incl. premium)
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A rare Meissen porcelain pitcher with Neoclassical offering scenes

Grey tinted biscuit porcelain with white appliques. This form is inspired by the ancient Greek Oenochoe, but includes an additional spout. The appliques depict the scenes "Offrande à l´amour" and "Serment de Fidelité". Blue crossed swords mark. Minor chips to the lower lip and the edge of the spout, glued firing cracks. H 22.5 cm.
Ca. 1805, the reliefs by Johann Daniel Schöne.

Provenance

Collection of Prof. Dr. Gisela Zick.

Literature

An identical pitcher with breakages to the tip of the spout and the end of the scroll handle, probably still in possession of the Meissen Manufactory, in: Walcha, Die Marcolini-Zeit der Meißner Manufaktur, in: Keramos 40/1968, p. 13 ff., illus. 22, and Zick, Sèvres, Wedgwood und Meißen. Motivwanderungen um 1800, in: Keramos 198/2008, p. 75 ff.
Gisela Zick found that the same biscuit porcelain appliques were used by Sèvres and on furniture by Weisweiler und Schwerdtfeger and discovered the design by Jean-Jacques Avril the Elder (1802) in the Bibliothèque nationale Paris.