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Lot 1570 Dα

A Meissen porcelain tureen 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 € - 1.500 €
Result: 938 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain tureen with rare underglaze blue Chinoiserie decor

Oval tureen with original domed lid with rocaille finial. The body and lid decorated with Chinoiserie scenes flanked by rocks, architecture and willow branches. Blue crossed swords mark with dot and K, pressnummer 32. The tip of one leaf of the rocaille finial restored. Inconspicuous firing cracks to the domed lid, the lower end of one handle reattached and retouched. H with lid 14, D 22.7 cm.
The porcelain Meissen, around 1760 - 1774, the decor attributed to Peter Kolmberger and Johann-Carl Möbius, among others.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Illus. in Schneider (ed.), "Kobaltblau" Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus einer rheinischen Privatsammlung, Aachen 2001, cat. no. 1.
Also illus. in Hermann Reiff, Unterglasurblaue Chinoiserien nach Höroldt-Vorlagen, in: Keramos 111/86, p. 25, with further information on the service p. 19 ff., and in 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.