A rare Meissen porcelain tea bowl with a nocturnal scene

A rare Meissen porcelain tea bowl with a nocturnal scene

Rounded bowl on a short basal ring. Decorated with opulent gold cartouches hung with feathers and draperies containing a detailed depiction of riders and a deer hunt in a Saxon landscape on the front and a rare nocturnal merchant navy scene with a camp fire and full moon on the reverse. The inner rim with a broad gilt lace border, the well with indianische blumen. Blue crossed swords mark, P. in gold, dreher's mark . . for Johann Martin Kittel jr. H 4.5, D 8.1 cm.
Circa 1725 - 28, decor attributed to Christian Friedrich Herold.

Provenance

Acquired in 1988 from Röbbig, Munich.

Literature

Illus. in cat.: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, p. 79, no. 51.
Cf. a coffee pot with a rare night scene in the collection of Werner Jahn, verst. Lempertz Cologne auction 641 on 12th June 1989, lot 63.