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117. A Meissen tête-à-tête, circa 1765-70
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117. A Meissen tête-à-tête, circa 1765-70
Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
Voluntary lot
Description
117. A Meissen tête-à-tête, circa 1765-70
Painted by Johann George Loehnig en grisaille with scenes of putti reserved on a pink ground, the tray with a scene depicting Venus lamenting the dead Adonis, framed with beribboned floral wreaths in gilding, comprising: a coffee pot and cover; a teapot and cover; a milk jug; a tea canister and cover; a sugar bowl and cover; a shaped oval tray, tray: 35.5cm diam., cups: 6.4cm high, saucers: 12cm diam., milk jug: 9.5cm high, the coffeepot: 15.5cm high, the teapot: 9.8cm high, the tea canister: 8.5cm high, the sugar bowl and cover: 9.2cm high, crossed swords mark and dot in underglaze-blue, some with B (14)
A tray painted with the same scene, which may be based on an engraving after François Boucher illustrating Ovid's Metamorphoses, possibly adapted from one illustrating the Abbé Banier's translation published in Paris 1767-71, "Vénus pleure son cher Adonis...". A similarly-shaped Meissen tray painted in shades of sepia against a pale-blue background is in the James A. de Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor (R.J. Charleston, Meissen and other European Porcelain, 1971, no. 15), as are parts of a Meissen tea and coffee service painted with similar putti (Charleston, no. 14).
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