A rare Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer with tomato red ground
A rare Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer with tomato red ground
Decorated with water landscapes in quatrefoil reserves, the well of the cup with a depiction of a moored ship, the saucer with a merchant navy scene in a gilt cartouche. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's numer 2 in the basal ring of the saucer, 50 in gold. The tea bowl with two small restored rim chips. H tea bowl 4.5, D 7.9, D saucer 13 cm.
Circa 1740, decor attributed to Johann George Heintze.
Literature
Illus. in cat.: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, p. 87, no. 58.
Other items from this service in the Wark Collection (Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, London 2011, cat. no. 401 - 403).
A further tea bowl with tomato red ground in another similarly decorated service formerly housed in the Hoffmeister collection, in: Sammlung Hoffmeister, Hamburg 1999, vol. II, no. 268.
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A rare Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer with tomato red ground
Decorated with water landscapes in quatrefoil reserves, the well of the cup with a depiction of a moored ship, the saucer with a merchant navy scene in a gilt cartouche. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's numer 2 in the basal ring of the saucer, 50 in gold. The tea bowl with two small restored rim chips. H tea bowl 4.5, D 7.9, D saucer 13 cm.
Circa 1740, decor attributed to Johann George Heintze.
Literature
Illus. in cat.: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, p. 87, no. 58.
Other items from this service in the Wark Collection (Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, London 2011, cat. no. 401 - 403).
A further tea bowl with tomato red ground in another similarly decorated service formerly housed in the Hoffmeister collection, in: Sammlung Hoffmeister, Hamburg 1999, vol. II, no. 268.
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