Three Meissen porcelain dishes with rare underglaze blue Chinoiserie decor - image-1
Three Meissen porcelain dishes with rare underglaze blue Chinoiserie decor - image-2
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Lot 1566 Dα

Three Meissen porcelain dishes with rare underglaze blue Chinoiserie decor

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.200 €
Result: 1.250 € (incl. premium)
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Three Meissen porcelain dishes with rare underglaze blue Chinoiserie decor

Dishes of varying sizes; all items decorated with Chinoiserie scenes flanked by rocks, architecture and willow branches. Blue crossed swords mark with dot and Mö, the small dish marked 6, 12, the medium dish incised III. The largest dish with a restored Y-shaped crack, the medium one with a filled horizontal crack at 3 o'clock. D 19.8, 23.6 and 26.4 cm.
The porcelain Meissen, around 1760 - 1774, the decor attributed to Peter Kolmberger and Johann-Carl Möbius, among others.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Two illus. in Schneider (ed.), "Kobaltblau" Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus einer rheinischen Privatsammlung, Aachen 2001, cat. no. 5 + 15.
For more on the history of this service see Hermann Reiff, Unterglasurblaue Chinoiserien nach Höroldt-Vorlagen, in: Keramos 111/86, p. 19 ff., and v. Barsewisch, Unterglasurblaue Malerei, in: Keramos 121/1988, illus. 120 ff, p. 84 ff.

Exhibitions

Couven-Museum Aachen 30th June to 30th September 2001.
LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur Münster 2001.