DATED 1768, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARKS

细节

A MEISSEN (DOT PERIOD) DOCUMENTARY ANTHROPOMORPHIC TEA SERVICE
Dated 1768, blue crossed swords and dot marks
Each piece finely painted with colorful and entertaining scenes of animals at human pursuits, the branch handles and flower finials in bright blue and enriched in gilt, one cup with rats as guards walking a cat as prisoner down the road, the mile-marker inscribed with the date 1768 above a hunting horn, comprising:
A teapot globular teapot and cover, 7in. (17.8cm.) wide overall
A hot-milk jug and cover, 5¾in. (14.6cm.) high
A sugar-bowl and cover, 4¼in. (10.8cm.) diam.
A lozenge-shaped spoon tray, 6 5/8in. (16.9cm.) long
Six cups and saucers, 4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) diam., the saucers (16)

来源

Anon. sale; Sotheby's London, 4 March 1986, lot 301

拍品专文

No other such athropomorphic service would appear to be extant, although single pieces painted with humanized animals are known. Cf. the cup and saucer in the M. von Oppenheim Collection, Catalogue, plate 55; the singerie cup and saucer from the collection of Dr. Ernst Schneider, Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, no. 738, p. 171; another cup and saucer from this same service sold Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 13 October 1983, lot 118; and the puce-scale ribbed coffee-cup and saucer from a New York Private Collection sold as lot 117 in the same auction.