A Meissen porcelain Turkish style tea bowl - image-1

Lot 719 Dα

A Meissen porcelain Turkish style tea bowl

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 3.250 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain Turkish style tea bowl

With rose petal relief painted in purple, blue and green with dotted gilding. The rim inscribed in Turkish with the date hijra 1170 = 1756/57. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's number 56 (?), H in brown. H 3.9, D 6.9 cm.
1756/57.

Despite the Ottoman empire's participation in the Great Northern War, trade relations between Europe and the Levant intensified throughout the 18th century and especially after 1750. The Meissen manufactory was eager to enter the Turkish market and began producing porcelain especially designed to appeal to Oriental customers.

Provenance

The former collection of Werner Jahn, Hamburg.

Literature

Illus. in cat.: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, p. 83, no. 54.
Cf. a further identical tea bowl with matching saucer in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim (in: Rückert, Munich 1966, no. 711).
Cf. two tea bowls in the Wark Collection (in: Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain. The Wark Collection from the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, London 2011, nos. 358-359).