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Lot 1608 Dα

Six items of Meissen porcelain with peony and butterfly decor

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 1.250 € (incl. premium)

Six items of Meissen porcelain with peony and butterfly decor

Comprising two tea bowls, three saucers and a sugar box with original lid. Blue crossed swords marks (one saucer without crossed swords), various subsidiary marks and dreher's numbers. The base of the saucer cracked. H sugar box 9.3, D 10.7 cm.
1740s.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

One tea bowl illus. in Schneider (ed.), "Kobaltblau" Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus einer rheinischen Privatsammlung, Aachen 2001, cat. no. 59.
v. Barsewisch, Unterglasurblaue Malerei, in: Keramos 121/1988, illus. 21.