Lot 1128 - A210 Decorative Arts - Thursday, 19. September 2024, 02.00 PM
PROVENANCE PRIVATE COLLECTION LAKE GENEVA
RARE COVERED BOWL AND STAND ("OLIENBECHER")
Meissen, ca. 1723-24.
Conical tureen with angular handles and a finial. Very finely painted with quatrefoil cartouches flattened at the sides above a gold-tipped console with brown luster and iron-red embossed feathered leaves, depicting various chinoiserie scenes on a planted terrace with large-figure, amusing Chinese scenes on the edge of the cartouches. The cover, tureen and platter with corresponding gold lace borders. The inside of the tureen with a brown luster ground, a gold lace border on the upper rim, a bird in gold on both parts and a gold-leaf decoration on the lid. Two flowering branches in iron-red and green on the underside of the platter. Both foot rings and the lid rim with a gilt silver mount. Underglaze blue sword mark and .K.P.M. on the underside of the tureen, platter unmarked.
11.5 × 10.5 cm, Ø 17.5 cm.
Provenance:
Private collection, Suisse romande.
Comparable tureens: Christie's Geneva, 10 November 1986, Lot No.187 and later Bonhams, Paris, 15 November 2023, Lot No. 41; The Royal Dresden Porcelain Collection (Inv. No. PE1486).
On the designation “Olienbecher” in C. Boltz, Die wöchentlichen Berichte über die Tätigkeit der Meissner Dreher und Former vom 6. Juni 1722 bis 31. Dezember 1728, Keramos 178/2002, pp. 69 and 71.
A tureen from the same period with a comparable mount is in the Arnhold Collection, see Cassidy-Geiger, Catalog 2008, p. 340, No. 258 and later Sotheby's New York, Henry Arnhold Collection, 24 October 2019, Lot No. 441.
Private collection, Suisse romande.
Comparable tureens: Christie's Geneva, 10 November 1986, Lot No.187 and later Bonhams, Paris, 15 November 2023, Lot No. 41; The Royal Dresden Porcelain Collection (Inv. No. PE1486).
On the designation “Olienbecher” in C. Boltz, Die wöchentlichen Berichte über die Tätigkeit der Meissner Dreher und Former vom 6. Juni 1722 bis 31. Dezember 1728, Keramos 178/2002, pp. 69 and 71.
A tureen from the same period with a comparable mount is in the Arnhold Collection, see Cassidy-Geiger, Catalog 2008, p. 340, No. 258 and later Sotheby's New York, Henry Arnhold Collection, 24 October 2019, Lot No. 441.
CHF 15 000 / 25 000 | (€ 15 460 / 25 770)
Sold for CHF 27 500 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.