Online Auction 20673The Collector: English & European Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN YELLOW-GROUND TEA WARES
Lot 79PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATES OF BERNARD AND HELGA KRAMARSKY

TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN YELLOW-GROUND TEA WARES

CIRCA 1735, THE HOT-MILK JUG WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Closed5 April 2022

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TWO MEISSEN PORCELAIN YELLOW-GROUND TEA WARES
CIRCA 1735, THE HOT-MILK JUG WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Comprising a teapot of Japanese form with a possibly matched cover, the arched handle applied with two chrysanthemum heads, the handle and triangular spout with indianische Blumen, the body and cover each reserved with two panels painted in the style associated with Adam Fredrich von Löwenfinck with figures by shrubs and rockwork; and a hot-milk jug and matched cover reserved below the spout with a quatrefoil panel with the 'Two Quail' pattern, the porcelain handle with a foliate-molded tip
6 3⁄4 in. (17.2 cm.) high, the tea kettle
3 7⁄8 in. (9.8 cm.) high, the hot-milk jug

Specialist note

For an example of a teapot of similar form together with the Japanese original of 1660-1670 see Ulrich Pietsch, Meissener Porzellan und seine Ostasiatischen Vorbilder, Leipzig, 1996, p. 80, no. 20. See also Christie's, King Street, 8th July 2008, lot 47.

For a turquoise-ground example milk-jug of the same form and similar date, see Ulrich Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain: The Wark Collection from the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, London, 2011, p. 376, no. 431.

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