A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with Chinoiserie crane decor - image-1

Lot 1188 Dα

A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with Chinoiserie crane decor

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 1.764 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen porcelain cup and saucer with Chinoiserie crane decor

The cup with designs in two reserves, the saucer painted in the centre. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's number 3 (cup) and star dreher's mark for Paul Wildenstein or Gottfried Bergmann (saucer), both pieces marked 6 in iron red. The handle visibly reattached, glaze of the saucer slightly misfired in places. H cup 6.8, saucer 13.2 cm.
C. 1739/40.

Provenance

Lempertz Cologne auction 708, 17th November 1994, lot 61. -
Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Cf. a plate with the same decor in the Japanese Palace illus. in Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, Munich 2013, vol. I, p. 40, illus. 18 a/b.