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Lot 1599 Dα

An early Meissen porcelain cup and saucer 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: 400 € - 600 €
Result: 1.188 € (incl. premium)
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An early Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with capuchin brown ground

Tapering cup with a pointed spout, the saucer with two handles. Decorated with Chinoiserie landscapes in concentric circles. Blue crossed swords mark with curved guards, cup marked N3 (?9in blue, dreher's mark of Johann Martin Kittel. H cup 8.7, W saucer 18.4 cm.
1730s.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Illus. in Schneider (ed.), "Kobaltblau" Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus einer rheinischen Privatsammlung, Aachen 2001, cat. no. 66.
Cf. also Arnold/Diefenbacher (ed.), Meissener Blaumalerei aus drei Jahrhunderten, Leipzig 1989, cat. no. 174 (Porzellansammlung Dresden, inv. no. 5635 a/b).
Cf. also v. Barsewisch, Unterglasurblaue Malerei, in: Keramos 121/1988, illus. 4.

Exhibitions

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