Three items of Meissen porcelain from a tea service with merchant navy scenes in iron red

Three items of Meissen porcelain from a tea service with merchant navy scenes in iron red

Comprising a teapot with a small lid and a spherical finial and a tea bowl with original saucer. All items finely painted with detailed harbour scenes within opulent gold and purple lustre cartouches, the saucer with a rare nocturnal landscape with a camp fire in the foreground. Fine gilt tendril rims. Blue crossed swords mark, 5. in gold (coffee pot and saucer), dreher's mark oo for Johann Gottlieb Kühnel sen. (saucer). H teapot 9.5 cm.
Circa 1730, the decor attributed to Christian Friedrich Herold.

Provenance

Helen Dietrich Collection, New York.
Acquired from Christie´s London on 30th March 1987, lot 172 and 176.
The tea bowl and saucer acquired from Gerhard Röbbig, Munich, 1988.

Literature

Illus. in cat.: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, coffee pot and tea bowl on p. 37, no. 15, saucer on p. 79, no. 50.