A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with coloured bay leaf reliefs - image-1

Lot 1304 Dα

A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with coloured bay leaf reliefs

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.375 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with coloured bay leaf reliefs

The well of the teacup and saucer each painted with a polychrome harbour scene in a large scrollwork cartouche. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's number 11.
Ca. 1740, decoration attributed to Johann Friedrich Metzsch.

Provenance

Auctioned by Sotheby´s London 4th March 1986, lot 227.
Acquired in 1986 from Georges Ségal, Basel.
Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.

Literature

Illustrated in cat. Blütenlese Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Berlin-Munich 2018, illus. 94 f.
A further identical cup in the Wark Collection (in Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London 2011, no. 660).