A very rare Meissen chinoiserie group on an ormolu base, circa 1750.  Photo Bonhams

A Meissen oval sugar box and cover, circa 1735.  Photo Bonhams

Decorated with a chinoiserie scenes of figures in various pursuits, based on the Schulz Codex, the cover with a similar decoration, all under a double iron red band and gilt border, the moulded finial gilded, 9cm high, crossed swords in underglaze-blue to the base of the box  (2) - Estimate: £8,000 - 12,000, € 9,200 - 14,000

A Meissen Hausmaler teapot and cover, circa 1725-35.. Photo Bonhams

Painted, possibly in Bayreuth, in coloured enamels and gilding with a chinoiserie figure holding a parasol, a pagoda on the reverse, gilt foliate scrollwork borders, 12cm high (cover restored) (2) - Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000, € 4,600 - 6,900

Provenance: Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel;
Private Collection, Switzerland

Literature: Pauls-Eisenbeiss 1972, vol. I, p. 542f.

Traditionally attributed to the Hausmaler Johann Philipp Dannhöfer, the decoration on this teapot is closely related to various other pieces of Hausmaler-decorated Meissen porcelain pre-1730. The subject is explored most comprehensively by Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky (1980, cat.no.20), where the author also lists other examples.

A Meissen octagonal sugar box and matched cover, circa 1725. Photo Bonhams

The box painted with a continuous chinoiserie scene depicting single seated figures flanked by flowers and bushes, alternating with exotic animals and birds, below a gilt scrollwork border, the cover with two chinoiserie vignettes enclosed by a band of floral panels and gilt scrollwork,
gold and purple borders, 11.2cm across, KPM and crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numerals 52 (box) and 26 (cover) (tiny chip to rim of box, some flaking to gilt rim of cover) (2). Estimate: £3,000 - 5,000, € 3,500 - 5,800.

Provenance: Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel;
Private Collection, Switzerland

Literature: Pauls-Eisenbeiss 1972, vol. I, p. 474f.

A Meissen armorial two-handled ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1735. Photo Bonhams

Painted in Kakiemon style with banded hedges and scattered flower sprigs, a coat of arms on the cover, surmounted by a dragon finial, the scroll handles heightened in gilding, brown-edged rims, the stand: 18.3cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue (finial restuck) (3). Estimate: £3,000 - 5,000, € 3,500 - 5,800

Provenance: Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel;
Private Collection, Switzerland

Literature: Freunde der Schweizer Keramik,
Mitteilungsblatt 30/31 (1955), pl. 1, ill. 2

Exhibited: Geneva, Musée Ariana, 1. Vereinsaustellung Freunde der Schweizer Keramik, September-October 1946

A Meissen circular stand, circa 1740.  Photo Bonhams

Painted in Famille verte style with a bird perched on flowers and rockwork within a floral border reserved with butterfly panels and flowers around the gilt-edged rim, the reverse with iron-red flowering branches, 22.1cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed numeral (some minor rubbing to enamels). Estimate: £2,500 - 3,500, € 2,900 - 4,000

Provenance: Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel;
Private Collection, Switzerland

A set of eight Meissen plates, circa 1735. Photo Bonhams

Each painted in Kakiemon style with koreanische Löwe pattern of a winged dragon facing a beetle below indianische Blumen and a crane overhead, the gilt-edged rim moulded with basketwork and painted with scattered flowers and insects, 23.2cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, two with impressed Dreher's mark E (typical minor wear); together with three Meissen plates, circa 1770, en suite, 23cm diam., crossed swords marks and dots in underglaze-blue (11) - Estimate: £2,500 - 3,500, € 2,900 - 4,000

A Meissen beaker, circa 1730. Photo Bonhams

A Meissen teabowl and a saucer, circa 1740.  Photo Bonhams

Brightly painted in Kakiemon style with flowering chrysanthemum branches growing from green banded hedges, with a yellow Pheonix in flight with blue wings and red tail feathers, the centre of the inside of the teabowl painted with a single flower, with brown-edged rims, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed numerals (2). Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000, € 1,700 - 2,300

Provenance:  Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel;
Private Collection, Switzerland

A Meissen plate decorated with the 'Parrot and Spaniel' pattern, circa 1740. Photo Bonhams

Decorated with a spaniel barking at a chained parrot seated on a higher stand, the parrot surrounded by small insects, all under a densely decorated scrollwork border in brown and gold, alternated by four shell-scrolls, 23cm diam., crossed swords in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark of three dots (minor wear). Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500, € 1,200 - 1,700

Note: The pattern on this plate is generally thought to be based on the designs of Petrus Schenk, the first Dutchman sent to Japan to design patterns to be copied and sent back to Amsterdam via the VOC. There is a Chinese cup and saucer in the Victoria and Albert Museum with a blue and white decoration of the same pattern, datable to about 1750. A Meissen charger with the same pattern can be found in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection on view in the Kirschgarten Museum in Basel, and is illustrated in the catalogue of the collection (1972, Vol I, p. 498f.), where it is mentioned that the larger part of this service (52 pieces in total) was in the Ole Olsen Collection. Rückert (1966, cat.no.147) notes that Zimmermann (1926, p.247) dated the service to 1760, and that on the basis of the shape of the handle on one of the two jugs in the Dresden porcelain collections the date must be after 1735. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, in his catalogue of the Klemperer Collection (1928, p.101) dated the service earlier, to circa 1735-40. The mark, according to Rückert, points to a date around the middle of the 18th century.

An unusual Meissen saucer, circa 1735. Photo Bonhams

Decorated with gilding on the cavetto and on the reverse, three chinoiserie vignettes below a gilt scrollwork border around the rim, 12cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark ** (some rubbing to gilding on the front of the saucer). Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500, € 1,200 - 1,700

Note: Three earlier saucer with continuous chinoiserie scenes attributed to J.G. Höroldt painted on the reverse and gilding on the surface are in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection (published by Schommers / Grigat-Hunger, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts (2004), no. 22.

A pair of Meissen plates, circa 1740. Photo Bonhams

Painted in Kakiemon style with the 'Koreanischer Löwe' pattern of a winged dragon facing indianische Blumen and a beetle with a crane in flight overhead, the basket-moulded rim with flower sprigs and insects, 23.2cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed numeral  36 (very slight wear to enamels) (2). Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500, € 1,200 - 1,700

Provenance: Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel;
Private Collection, Switzerland

A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1725-30. Photo Bonhams

Painted with chinoiserie scenes, each within a shaped gilt quatrelobe cartouche with Böttger lustre and embellished with iron-red and purple scrollwork, the rims with gilt scrollwork borders, the inside of the teabowl with a flower spray within iron-red concentric circles, crossed swords
marks in underglaze blue, gilt numeral 41. to the saucer, incised / inside footrims (restored chip to rim of teabowl and section of the saucer restored) (2) - Estimate: £800 - 1,200, € 920 - 1,400

A Meissen beaker and saucer, circa 1730-35. Photo Bonhams

Painted in underglaze-blue and enamels with the Tischchenmuster pattern of indianische Blumen above a table picked out in gold, the beaker of tapering form, the underside of the saucer with three concentric circles in iron red at the foot, both with formal borders at the rims in iron-red divided by purple and yellow half-flowerheads, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to both, the beaker: painter's letter Y, the saucer: painter's letter K in underglaze blue, Dreher's mark of a star (slight wear to saucer) (2). Estimate: £700 - 1,000, € 810 - 1,200