Tag: Meissen

Birds rendered by Meissen in porcelain. 20th century, after models by J. J. Kändler (1706-1775). From a current Sotheby’s catalogue.

Pair of Meissen porcelain brightly colored parrots perched on tree stumps. German. 20th c, after the models by J. J. Kändler. Maker’s marks: crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised model numbers 63X and 63, impressed numerals 91 and 71. Image © 2021 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/design-17-20-silver-furniture-ceramics/a-pair-of-meissen-figures-of-parrots-20th-century?locale=en




Pair of Meissen porcelain golden orioles with their plumage brightly painted, each perched atop a tree stump affixed with flowers. German. 20th c, after the models by J. J. Kändler. Maker’s marks: crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised model number 820, impressed numerals 1490 or 1104. Image © 2021 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/design-17-20-silver-furniture-ceramics/a-pair-of-meissen-figures-of-golden-orioles-20th?locale=en



Pair of Meissen porcelain cockatoos, naturalistically modelled with their plumage picked out in red, perched on tree stumps applied with flower heads. German. 20th c, after the models by J. J. Kändler. Maker’s marks:  crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised model number 77034 and underglaze-blue model number 77035, impressed numerals 64 and 22, impressed date codes. Image © 2021 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/design-17-20-silver-furniture-ceramics/a-pair-of-meissen-figures-of-cockatoos-20th?locale=en

Fancy eye baths (baignore d’yeux) all in porcelain. Whether they help your eyes more than the plastic CVS kind I don’t know but for sure these are more fun to look at.

Three Sèvres eye baths (bagnoire d’yeux). A bleu céleste example with gilt dentil rim by Buteux; a blue-ground example with gilt white scrollwork and harebells; and a cobalt-blue example painted with a floral garland. Also a Chantilly example in blue and white. Second half of the 18th century. French. Makers marks: two of the Sèvres examples with blue interlaced L’s marks; one with a gilder’s mark for P. T. Buteux; the Chantilly example with a blue hunting horn mark. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2022. Fair use license. via https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/collector-english-european-furniture-ceramics-silver-works-art/three-sevres-porcelain-eye-baths-baignoire-dyeux-chantilly-eye-bath-32/146142?ldp_breadcrumb=back

Porcelain eyebath decorated with delicate and finely painted red roses amongst green and gilt flora with a spread eagle bird in flight at either end. The stem is decorated with gilt leaves and the rim and edges are in gilt. ca. 1880-1899. French. Unsigned. Image © 2022 Phisick. Fair use license. via https://phisick.com/item/19th-c-paris-porcelain-eye-bath/



Eye bath of hard-paste porcelain. Oval cup on funnel foot. Hard-paste eye bath with an oval cup on a funnel foot. Purple ground with two lobed reserves with Höroldt chinoiseries and a gilt lace ornament inside the rim. The interior with a chinoiserie framed by gilt scrolls enclosing lustre panels and laub-und bandelwerk in iron-red and purple. 1730-1735. German. Meissen Porcelain Factory, maker. Maker’s marks: Crossed swords factory mark, in underglaze blue. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2021. Fair use license. via https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O307059/eye-bath-meissen-porcelain-factory/

Dinner dishes each with a different animal motif. Meissen. The style being closely related to the Hanbury-Williams service which was produced in the Meissen factory between 1748 and 1750 and gifted by Augustus III to Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams, British Envoy to the Saxon Court. Later it belonged to the Duke of Northumberland. Some of these from the Hanbury-Williams service itself.

Plate from the Hanbury Williams/Duke of Northumberland service, painted with a seated wolf in a landscape vignette, enclosed by a flower wreath tied at the base by a yellow ribbon with a beetle and an insect overhead. Gilt-edged wavy rim with three flower specimens. ca. 1748-1750. Made in Saxony. Decorated porcelain. Meissen, maker. Maker’s marks: crossed swords in underglaze-blue, mark for Meissen. Image © Bonhams 2001-2020. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/17977/lot/89/
Stand which was probably meant to sit under a small tureen, decorated with a camelid, possibly a llama, in a style very closely related to the so-called ‘Hanbury-Williams’, or Duke of Northumberland, service. Mid 18th c. Made in Saxony. Decorated porcelain. Meissen, maker. Image © National Gallery of Victoria. Fair use license. via https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/meissen-porcelain-factory-pair-of-stands/
Stand which was probably meant to sit under a small tureen, decorated with a mountain goat eating foliage, in a style very closely related to the so-called ‘Hanbury-Williams’, or Duke of Northumberland, service. Mid 18th c. Made in Saxony. Decorated porcelain. Meissen, maker. Image © National Gallery of Victoria. Fair use license. via https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/meissen-porcelain-factory-pair-of-stands/

Bird tureens in porcelain from Meissen. If you stare at them long enough maybe they will start to chirp. German.

Porcelain partridge form tureen and cover mounted on a rococo gilt bronze base, the bird seated on its nest in front of a spray of bulrushes. Early 19th c. German. Porcelain and gilt bronze. Meissen, maker. Image © 2020 Sothebys. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/true-connoisseurship-the-collection-of-ezra-cecile-zilkha/a-meissen-porcelain-partridge-form-turren-and

Partridge tureen and cover modeled as a partridge seated on a basket weave nest. Quail box and cover modeled as a quail perched on a grassy mound. The pheasant perched astride a high mound with three speckled chicks at her feet. Mid 18th c. German. Meissen, maker. Maker’s marks: each with blue crossed swords marks for Meissen. The tureen with an indistinct impressed “D”. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2020. Fair use license. via https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/a-meissen-partridge-tureen-and-cover-a-5722294-details.aspx
Partridge tureen. ca. 1748. German. Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, and gilding. Meissen, maker. Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago. Cc0 License 0. via https://www.artic.edu/artworks/22409/partridge-tureen

Covered pots in porcelain from Meissen. Various intended uses. All very pretty and perfect for your next party.

Covered pot with a strawberry shaped grip and polychrome decoration of fruits and flowers. Louis XV (reigned from 1715 to 1774). Made in Dresden, Saxony (Germany). Porcelain with gilt bronze mounts. Meissen. Image © 2020 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/lexigence-dun-collectionneur-sa-vision-du-xviiieme-siecle/a-louis-xv-gilt-bronze-mounted-meissen-porcelain
Cream pot and cover. The pot with three paw feet picked out in puce, the sides reserved with three quatrelobe panels painted in Kakiemon style with indianische Blumen. Scroll handle with further flowers with a gilt-line rim. Cover painted with birds and flowering branches within a brown-edged rim. ca. 1730. Made in Dresden, Saxony (Germany). Blue ground with a overrare Meissen underglaze. Maker’s mark: crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue. Image © 1stdibs.com, Inc. 2020. Fair use license. via https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/dining-entertaining/pottery/18th-century-rare-meissen-underglaze-blue-ground-cream-pot-cover/id-f_12624572/
Purple “Indian” round tureen with a figure holding a cornucopia with fruit on the cover. 1880s-1890s. Made in Dresden, Saxony (Germany). Maker’s mark: crossed swords. mark for Meissen in blue on the underside. Image © 1stdibs.com, Inc. 2020. Fair use license. via https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/dining-entertaining/platters-serveware/late-19th-century-meissen-purple-indian-round-tureen-figure-cornacopia/id-f_20064492/?gclid=CjwKCAjw0On8BRAgEiwAincsHNuU7vYZ1Gobu0OuDZvcd-0EZnJ4eIkDZr8rO45DTH4fPo69pCDxZRoCQyEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Porcelain ewers from Meissen’s “Elements” line, all with different decorations. Late 19th-early 20th century after 18th century models.

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“Water” ewer with a relief naval scene flanked by the figures of a galloping horse, mermaid and the god Neptune. The circular flaring base has decorations of spouting dolphins among bulrushes. ca. 1880. After the model by J.J. Kaendler who worked at the Meissen factory from 1731 until his death in 1775. German. Decorated porcelain. Maker’s marks: Factory mark for Meissen. incised model number “320” and impressed numerals. Image © 2020 Mayfair Gallery Limited. Fair use license. via https://www.mayfairgallery.com/large-meissen-porcelain-elements-ewer-representing-water

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“Fire” flattened baluster from ewer with a dragon handle and body molded in relief with an erupting volcano and wild animals escaping from a forest fire, a figure of Vulcan carrying bellows seated on the shoulder and a woman applied to the side. The foot depicting a putto carrying flames. Late 19th c, after a model made by by J.J. Kaendler who worked at the Meissen factory from 1731 until his death in 1775. Decorated porcelain. Makers marks: factory mark for Meissen. Incised model number “310” and inscribed Pressnumber “147.” Image © CHRISTIE’S 2020. Fair use license. via https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/a-meissen-porcelain-ewer-emblematic-of-fire-5885360-details.aspx

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“Air” ewer, decorated in high relief with the lip and foot encircled with polychrome feathers. Billowing drapery handle surmounted by putti withe body painted with high relief clouds depicting the goddess Juno with a peacock and Zephyr. ca. 1880 after models by Johann Kändler, who worked for Meissen from 1731 to 1775. German. Porcelain. Maker’s marks: factory mark for Meissen. Inscribed “327.” Image © 1999 – 2020 SKINNER, INC. Fair use license. via https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2835B/lots/137

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“Earth” ewer with a ribbon pink ribbon tied wheat grain handle surmounted by a a putto with a basket of fruit. Waisted neck painted with sprigs and the body molded with a hunt flanked by applied figures of Diana and Pan above a hound attacking a bear. Reverese with a mountainous scene in bas-relief. Foot with the motif of a putto digging with a spade. Probably 19th c. After models by Johann Kändler, who worked for Meissen from 1731 to 1775. German. Porcelain. Maker’s marks; factory mark for Meissen. Image © 2020 – WorthPoint Corporation. Fair use license. via https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/monumental-meissen-earth-ewer-four-1823408462

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Four “Elements” ewers. 18th c. German, Meissen. Source: Rau Antiques. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Four_Elements_Porcelain_Ewers_by_Meissen.jpg

New public (free) post for the last week of February, 2020 now available on my patreon page. Rococo Revival. Link below.

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Chandelier featuring 16 candle arms, extensive floral encrusted decorations, figural songbirds and neoclassical figures. ca. 1900. Rococo Revival.
Chandelier featuring 16 candle arms, extensive floral encrusted decorations, figural songbirds and neoclassical figures. ca. 1900. Rococo Revival. Made in Berlin, Germany. Believed to have come from Meissen. Image © 1996 – 2019 GoAntiques LLC . Fair use license. via https://www.goantiques.com/ntique-rococo-revival-40105209