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Lot 813 Dα

A round Meissen porcelain butter dish with brocade motifs

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 4.032 € (incl. premium)
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A round Meissen porcelain butter dish with brocade motifs

Butter dish with slip lid and pinecone finial, painted throughout with opulent brocade patterns in the Imari style surrounded by borders of cobalt blue, iron red and gold. Blue crossed swords mark to the inside of the dish, smoothed base with dreher's no. 23. Minor retouches to the gilding. H 6.5, D 12.3 cm.
Around 1740 - 45.

Provenance

The Jahn Collection, Hamburg, sold Lempertz Cologne auction 641 on 12 June 1989, lot 83.

Private collection, Westphalia.

Literature

For this decor cf. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. no. 98 ff.