Meissen

Two sake bottles with underglaze blue décor and chinoiseries by Johann Ehrenfried Stadler (1701-1741), Meissen, c. 1728. Photo courtesy RÖBBIG MÜNCHEN Underglaze blue crossed sword marks, one bottle with L in underglaze blue Covers in silver, engraved. H. 17.5 cm. MASTERPIECES LONDON 2014. RÖBBIG MÜNCHEN. STAND D9. Briennerstr. 9, 80333 Munich, Germany. T +49 (0) 89 299758 - M +49 (0)171 6500456 - F +49 (0) 89 223822 - E-mail info@roebbig.de - Website http://www.roebbig.de/

A Meissen teapot with a matched cover, circa 1730. Photo: Bonhams. Each side with a shaped gilt quatrelobe cartouche filled with Böttger lustre edged with iron-red and purple and miniature chinoiserie figures, painted with Kauffahrtei scenes of merchants and their wares by a quayside, sprigs of indianische Blumen around the spout and handle, the matched cover with two similar vignettes and a rose finial, 10.5cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numerals 44. to teapot and 36. to cover (2). Estimate £3,000 - 5,000... [Lire la suite]

A Meissen teabowl and two Meissen saucers, circa 1725-40. Photo: Bonhams. The teabowl, circa 1725-30, painted with landscape scenes with chinoiserie figures within scrollwork cartouches, the inside with indianische Blumen issuing from rockwork within iron-red circles; one saucer, circa 1730, with a black monochrome estuary scene within a gilt and purple cartouche, the reverse with purple flower sprigs; the second saucer, circa 1735-40, with a purple ground, painted with an estuary scene within a quatrelobe cartouche, all with... [Lire la suite]

  A very rare group of nine Meissen Imari plates, circa 1735. Photo: Bonhams. The centre painted in underglaze-blue with flowering branches, enclosed by a narrow polychrome and gilt band of stylised fences and blossoms, the border with large polychrome flowering branches, the brown-edged rim with an underglaze-blue diaper band, 22.1cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised ||| (some scattered stacking wear) (9). Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 (€19,000 - 25,000) A plate of the same pattern is in the Arnhold... [Lire la suite]

A rare Meissen octagonal plate, circa 1740. Photo: Bonhams. Painted in Famille rose style with scholar's objects in the centre and a foliate-edged border of flowers reserved against a ground of scrolls, 24cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 22 (very minor flaking). Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 (€5,000 - 7,500) A similar plate was in the Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg; see D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts (1999), vol. I, no. 184 for other examples of this rare 'Famille Rose' decoration.... [Lire la suite]

A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1726-28. Photo: Bonhams. Each painted with chinoiserie scenes within quatrelobe gilt scrollwork cartouches filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red and purple scrollwork, gilt strap- and scrollwork borders to the rims, the teabowl with indianische Blumen within concentric iron-red circles to the inside, gilt numeral 36. to both, impressed .. inside footrim of saucer (some flaking to gilding) (2). Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 (€2,500 - 3,800) Bonhams. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS. London, New Bond... [Lire la suite]

A Meissen teapot and cover, circa 1735. Photo: Bonhams. Painted with a continuous chinoiserie scene with figures engaged in various pursuits, the animal spout embellished in gilding and the wishbone handle in gilding, purple and iron-red, gilt foliate scrollwork border to the rims, the cover with two landscape vignettes and a round gilt finial, 10.2cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue and gilt numeral 17. to both (2). Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 (€5,000 - 7,500)  Bonhams. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS. London, New Bond... [Lire la suite]

A rare Meissen mug, circa 1726-28. Photo: Bonhams. Painted in the manner of J.E. Stadler with a chinoiserie scene depicting an adult holding a parasol and a child with a fan, flanked by a fence and flowering indianische Blumen above iron-red lines, a band of iron-red foliage reserved with polychrome flower heads below the rim, the handle with a flower sprig, 8.4cm high, traces of crossed swords mark in blue (some restoration on handle). Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 (€5,000 - 7,500) Literature: U. Pietsch/K. Jacobsen, Frühes Meissener... [Lire la suite]

A Meissen small coffee pot and cover, circa 1726-28. Photo: Bonhams. Each side painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting two figures beneath a canopy and tree, respectively, within a gilt cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with purple and iron-red scrollwork, indianische Blumen beneath the spout and handle, a band of gilt strap- and scrollwork below the rim, the handle with gilt scrollwork and indianische Blumen, the cover decorated with a continuous chinoiserie scene, 17.8cm high, crossed swords mark in... [Lire la suite]

A Meissen oval sugar box and cover, circa 1723-25. Photo: Bonhams. Painted with a chinoiserie scene on each side within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre, flanked by indianische Blumen, the cover with a similar vignette surrounded by a gilt scroll- and strapwork border, 12cm long, K.P.M. and crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 36. to both (worn on the box) (some retouching to the gilding) (2). Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 (€10,000 - 15,000) Bonhams. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS. London, New Bond... [Lire la suite]