Lot 1133* - A204 Decorative Arts - Thursday, 30. March 2023, 10.00 AM
TEA BOWL AND SAUCER WITH EARLY CHINOISERIE DECORATION
Meissen, ca. 1723.
Painted with quatrefoil gold cartouches with Böttger luster and iron-red scrollwork. The tea bowl with two Chinese figures against a cloudy sky, Indian flowers and a bird on the back. The saucer with a Chinese figure aiming a bow and arrow at a monkey stealing fruit in a tree, which is being collected by a servant in an apron. The inside of the tea bowl with a stylized landscape in iron-red. The rim with gold lace borders. Potter's mark x for Johann Christoph Pietzsch on the foot ring of the saucer and / in the tea bowl.
H 4.6 cm, Ø 12.7 cm.
Provenance:
- Newman & Newman, Ltd.
- Private Collection of the Viscount Boyd of Merton, Christie's London, 6 December 2004, Lot No. 402 (part).
- The Marouf Collection, Part I, Bonhams London, 5 December 2012, Lot No. 3.
- Aristocratic private collection, Southern Germany.
Illustration:
U. Pietsch, Passion for Meissen, 2010, No. 13.
- Newman & Newman, Ltd.
- Private Collection of the Viscount Boyd of Merton, Christie's London, 6 December 2004, Lot No. 402 (part).
- The Marouf Collection, Part I, Bonhams London, 5 December 2012, Lot No. 3.
- Aristocratic private collection, Southern Germany.
Illustration:
U. Pietsch, Passion for Meissen, 2010, No. 13.
CHF 8 000 / 12 000 | (€ 8 250 / 12 370)
Sold for CHF 9 375 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.