Lot 755 | Meissen | PORCELAIN HELMET JUG WITH WATTEAU SCENES

PORCELAIN HELMET JUG WITH WATTEAU SCENES.

Meissen.
Date: 18th c.
Technique: Porcelain, painted in colours and gold. Bronze, gilt.
Description: On the sides, in between three gold-decorated flutes each, thrice scenes of a galant
couple in parklands. On the foot of the jug and between the gold flutes colourful flower
paintings. On the interior of the jug in the area of the spout and of the base of the
handles gold ornaments. The original porcelain handle substituted by bronze work.
Measurement: 24,5x23,5cm.
Mark: Swords mark, painted blue under the glaze.


Provenance:
- Private collection Cologne.

Literature:
- Eikelmann, Renate/Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Schloß Lustheim, Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich 2004. One bowl with comparable decorative figures ill. 108, p. 283.
- Bastian, Jaques, Strasbourg Faiences et porcelaines, 1721- 1784, Strasbourg 2002, one platter with similar decorative cartouches and flowers painted in graduated flowers, ill. 79, p. 108.
- Brattig, Patricia, Meissen Barockes Porzellan, COlogne 2010. One handle platter with similar decorative flowers, ill. 249, p. 419.