Durch Feuer verwandelt / Transformed by Fire A Private Collection of Early Meissen
Durch Feuer verwandelt / Transformed by Fire A Private Collection of Early Meissen
A Meissen Hausmalerei Part Tea and Coffee Service, Circa 1750
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July 1, 12:52 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen Hausmalerei Part Tea and Coffee Service, Circa 1750
the moulded reeded bodies painted in the Ferner workshop with pastoral scenes on a café-au-lait ground, with gilt scroll borders, comprising: a coffee-pot and cover, teapot and cover, circular basin and a teacup and saucer, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed numerals
8 1/8 in., 20.8 cm. high
Ein Teil eines Tee- und Kaffeeservice, Meissener Porzellan Hausmalerei, um 1750
Ulrich Pietsch, Frühes Meissner Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung, exhibition catalogue, Lübeck, 1993, pp. 116-117, no. 97-99 and 101.
Robert E. Roentgen, The Book of Meissen, Pennsylvania, 1984, pl. 222.
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.