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Lot 1573 Dα

Two Meissen porcelain butter 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: 1.200 € - 1.600 €
Result: 1.125 € (incl. premium)
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Two Meissen porcelain butter dishes with rare underglaze blue Chinoiserie decor

Squat, barrel-shaped butter dishes, the original lids with artichoke finials. Decorated with Chinoiserie scenes flanked by rocks, architecture and willow branches. Unglazed bases with pressnummer 5, blue crossed swords mark with K to the insides. One lid with craquelure to the glaze on either side. H 6 and 7, D of both 11 cm.
The porcelain Meissen, around 1760 - 1774, the decor attributed to Peter Kolmberger and Johann-Carl Möbius, among others.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Both dishes illus. in Schneider (ed.), "Kobaltblau" Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus einer rheinischen Privatsammlung, Aachen 2001, cat. no. 24.
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.