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 Tall Beaker and Saucer, Circa 1724
Lot Closed
July 1, 12:44 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen Tall Beaker and Saucer, Circa 1724
painted with a kauffahrtei scene of merchants in conversation before quays, within quatrefoil cartouches enclosing Böttger lustre sections, issuing foliage in iron-red and purple below gilt laud-und-bandelwerk, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 5 to each, incised / to footrim of saucer
the saucer 5 3/8 in., 13.4 cm. diameter; the beaker, 7.7 cm. high
Ein Becher mit Untertasse, Meissener Porzellan, um 1724
Ulrich Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellanaus einer Privatsammlung, exhibition catalogue, Lübeck, 1993, pp. 60-61, no. 44.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hermann Jedding, Meissner Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz, Hamburg, 1982, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, no. 68.
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.