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Lot 1598 Dα

Seven items of Meissen porcelain with capuchin brown ground

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 300 € - 400 €
Result: 938 € (incl. premium)
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Seven items of Meissen porcelain with capuchin brown ground

Comprising two cups with original saucers, one single cup, one saucer, one two-handled beaker. With differing Chinoiserie decor Blue crossed swords mark, various subsidiary marks, dreher's marks and numbers. The single cup labelled "Porzellan-Sammlung Rudolf Weigand", with a chip and crack. A rim chip to the saucer with herons and pagodas.
1730s/1740s.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

The cups and saucers illus. in Schneider (ed.), "Kobaltblau" Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus einer rheinischen Privatsammlung, Aachen 2001, cat. no. 64 + 65.
Cf. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. no. 15. Julia Weber mentions that the arcanist Samuel Stölzel invented the recipe for brown ground pigment "before 6th September 1720".