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Lot 1470 Dα

An oval Meissen porcelain box and cover with a figural finial

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 756 € (incl. premium)
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An oval Meissen porcelain box and cover with a figural finial

Blue crossed swords mark, blue 4? in the basal ring. Minor chips to the finial, three small firing cracks to the base. H 9.4, W 16.2, D 10 cm.
Around 1740, model by Johann Joachim Kaendler.

Rainer Rückert quotes from Kaendler's workshop records of August 1733: "1 oval sugar box made with some ornamentation, on top stands a small peasant man" and the entry of May 1734: "1 small peasant man changed to a butter box".

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

A similar box without mouldings and with polychromy in Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich 1966, cat. no. 319.
Cf. further examples of this form and decor in von Barsewisch, Unterglasurblaue Malerei, in: Keramos 121/1988, illus. 51 and 52.