A rare Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer with tomato red ground - image-1

Lot 1663 Dα

A rare Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer with tomato red ground

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 4.500 € (incl. premium)
Artist Alert
Print page
Watchlist

A rare Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer with tomato red ground

Decorated with water landscapes in quatrefoil reserves. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's numer 2 in the basal ring of the saucer, 50 in gold. The tea bowl with two small restored rim chips. H tea bowl 4.5, D 7.9, D saucer 13 cm.
Circa 1740, decor attributed to Johann George Heintze.

Provenance

Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.

Literature

Illus. in cat.: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, p. 87, no. 58.
Other items from this service in the Wark Collection (Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, London 2011, cat. no. 401 - 403).
A further tea bowl with tomato red ground in another similarly decorated service formerly housed in the Hoffmeister collection, in: Sammlung Hoffmeister, Hamburg 1999, vol. II, no. 268.