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Lot 1483 Dα

A Meissen porcelain teapot with Watteau motifs

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 945 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain teapot with Watteau motifs

Model with zoomorphic spout and original lid. Painted with park scenes in copper green. Blue crossed swords mark, 2 in gold. H 11.3 cm.
Around 1745 - 50.

From 1741 onwards, Count Johann Christian Hennicke successively handed over 230 engravings with so-called “Watteau” motifs to the Meissen manufactory. These engravings were based on paintings by Antoine Watteau, Nicolas Lancret and Jean Baptiste Pater, and were intended to serve as inspiration for porcelain paintings. Eleven painters specialised in the execution of these motifs, most notably Gottlob Siegmund Birckner and Johann Jacob Wagner. The most lavish order with these decorations was the toilette service for the Saxon Princess Maria Amalia (1724 - 1760), Queen of Naples-Sicily, married in 1738, which began production in 1745 and was decorated with Watteau scenes in copper green camaieu.

Literature

For more on the service for the Queen of Naples see Cassidy-Geiger, Princes and Porcelain on the Grand Tour of Italy, in: dies., Fragile Diplomacy Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, New York 2007, p. 237 ff.