A rare Meissen porcelain butter dish with "onion pattern" decor - image-1
A rare Meissen porcelain butter dish with "onion pattern" decor - image-2
A rare Meissen porcelain butter dish with "onion pattern" decor - image-1A rare Meissen porcelain butter dish with "onion pattern" decor - image-2

Lot 1582 Dα

A rare Meissen porcelain butter dish with "onion pattern" decor

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 400 € - 600 €
Result: 875 € (incl. premium)
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A rare Meissen porcelain butter dish with "onion pattern" decor

Oval dish with two handles and original lid with a Chinoiserie tendril forming the handle. Unglazed base, blue crossed swords mark with T. to the inside. Two small, inconspicuous firing cracks to the inner rim of the dish. H 7.9, W 14.4, D 8.7 cm.
Around 1750/60.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

This form in v. Barsewisch, Unterglasurblaue Malerei, in: Keramos 121/1988, illus. 121 and 130.
Cf. also Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. no. 100.