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Lot 1571 Dα

A Meissen porcelain sauce boat 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: 938 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain sauce boat with rare underglaze blue Chinoiserie decor

Decorated below the spout with two large Chinoiserie figures in a landscape, flanked by Oriental flowers. Unglazed base with pressnummer 28, blue crossed swords mark with pronounced pommels to the interior. The lower handle with a restored breakage. H 12.5, W 24 cm.
Around 1740/50.

This characteristic two-figure Chinoiserie scene is based on an etching by the Amsterdam engraver Petrus Schenk (1693 - 1775), which is now housed in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Illus. in Schneider (ed.), "Kobaltblau" Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus einer rheinischen Privatsammlung, Aachen 2001, cat. no. 28.
Cf. also a coffee pot with identical decor in v. Barsewisch, Unterglasurblaue Malerei, in: Keramos 121/1988, illus. 115, p. 81.

Exhibitions

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