A MEISSEN STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND PUNCH-BOWL, COVER AND STAND

CIRCA 1900, BLUE CROWNED DRESDEN MARK AND 10916., PROBABLY FOR THE DECORATING WORKSHOP OF KLEMM OR HAMANN

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A MEISSEN STYLE COBALT-BLUE GROUND PUNCH-BOWL, COVER AND STAND
Circa 1900, blue crowned Dresden mark and 10916., probably for the decorating workshop of Klemm or Hamann
With lemon sprig finial and scroll handles, the banded globular body painted with two satiric panels of the Punch Society after William Hogarth reserved by an oval gilt trellis and foliate cartouche, the lower body and stand with similar panels of deutsche-Blumen
11in. (27.8cm.) diameter, the stand (2)

Lot Essay

See Hans Syz, et al. The Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 177 and the Stanley Ungar Collection, Christie's, New York, 23 April 1998, lot 106 for 18th century Meissen examples painted with variations of the drunken dinner table scene 'A Midnight Conversation' after Hogarth.

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