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Lot 185
A Fürstenberg porcelain tête-à-tête service, circa 1780Painted with circular panels of small flower bouquets edged with a gilt beaded borders, the rims with gilt foliate bands, comprising: an oval tray, a teapot and cover, a milk jug and cover, a sugar bowl and cover and two cups and saucers, the tray: 35.7cm long, F marks in underglaze-blue and blue, 21 in underglaze-blue to cups and saucers, traces of letters in blue, various incised and impressed marks (one cup and sugar bowl restored) (11)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 192
A rare Berlin part service, circa 1823-1832Comprising: a coffee pot and cover, a teapot and cover, a milk jug, a sucrier and cover and two cups and saucers, all decorated with panes of micro-mosaic views of Roman archaeological sites based on the prints published in 1797 in two volumes by R. Edwards under the title 'A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and Its Vicinity. Recently Executed from Drawings Made Upon the Spot in the year 1791', the views set in octagonal gilt frames alternated with neo-classical panels of abstracted lyres against a green ground in imitation of pietra dura, all enclosed by gilt bands tooled with stiff foliage and neo-classical elements, the high lobed rims of both pots and sucrier with red flower blossoms in pietra dura imitation repeated on the covers which feature an reclining sphinx as a finial, the coffee pot: 18.3cm high, sceptre mark in underglaze-blue, and red stamped mark of Imperial Eagle over initials KPM (11)Footnotes:This service is part of a small group of micro-mosaic Berlin porcelain with views of Rome and its vicinities which all appear produced between 1823-32. At the basis of this radical new shape and decoration style lies the urge to break with rococo tradition and develop a new neoclassical iconography. Eva Wollschläger (in S. Wittwer, Raffinesse und Eleganz (2007), pp. 190-195) describes this extraordinary type of service in detail. Its shape was likely introduced in 1800 and with its reference to Egyptian revival in the gilt tooled reclining sphinxes on the covers, pre-date the famous Egyptian service made at Sèvres in 1804-06 for Napoleon Bonaparte. The eight-sided flat surfaces of these shapes are likely taken from silver models. The shape itself however may have also been referred to as 'von sogenannter gothischer Form', of so-called Gothic shape, as mentioned in the exhibition catalogue of the Akademie of 1806 (Wittwer op.cit. n. 7). The Berlin factory found inspiration in the micro-mosaic and hardstone pietra dura furniture and interior decoration favoured by Frederick the Great, and under Frederick Wilhelm II the KPM factory from the early 19th century turned to the depiction of minerals and hardstone imitation as well as micro-mosaics on porcelain of the newest designs, a fashion that was echoed also in Vienna and Sèvres porcelain. This shape can be found with micro-mosaic panels of birds, and only occasionally with Roman landscapes. The print sources for this service published in 1797 by R. Edwards can still be found today in the archives of the Berlin factory. Three similar cups and saucers of the same type of landscapes though not clearly identified, were previously in the Twinight Collection and are, together with their source reference, illustrated in S. Wittwer (op.cit., cat.nos. 24,25 and 26).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 57
A very rare Meissen underglaze-blue-ground beaker and saucer, circa 1722-23Each side reserved with a figural scene depicting a lady in a feathered headdress and elegant robes and a man with a bow and quiver, a remote landscape in the distance, within a shaped gilt quatrelobe cartouche edged with gilt and brown scrollwork, the saucer with a chinoiserie scene of a man drinking tea within a gilt and underglaze-blue cartouche edged with shaded iron-red scrollwork, the reverse of the rim with an underglaze-blue ground, gilt-edged rims, the beaker: 7.7cm high; the saucer: 12.8cm diam. (minor rubbing to cartouches on beaker) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:William W. Blackburn Collection, New York (by 1957);Private Collection, Switzerland;Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2007Literature:W.W. Blackburn, The length of J.G. Herold's career as an artist, and other notes, in Mitteilungsblatt der Keramikfreunde der Schweiz 39 (1957), p. 35, fig. 38 (the beaker illustrated);U. Pietsch/C. Banz (eds.), Triumph der blauen Schwerter (2010), cat. no. 46;C. Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord. Meissener Porzellanmalerei und ihre grafischen Vorlagen, II (2018), ill. 43aExhibited:Dresden, Japanese Palace, 'Triumph der blauen Schwerter: Meissener Porzellan für Adel und Bürgertum', 8 May-29 August 2010The figure with bow and quiver on the beaker is based on the figure of 'Sumatra' in a card game, jeu de la Géographie, that was commissioned from Stefano della Bella by Cardinal Mazarin for the young Louis XIV (see Bodinek, p. 56 and ill. 43). The female figure on the reverse seems to come from the same series and may be after 'Arabie Troglodytique'.Only three other beakers and saucers from this service are recorded in the literature, of which all are now in museum collections: a beaker and saucer is in the Wark Collection (U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain (2011), no. 110); another beaker and saucer is in the Warda Stevens Stout collection in Memphis (C. Nelson/L. Roberts, A History of Eighteenth-Century German Porcelain (2013), cat. no. 19); a third beaker and saucer was sold at the Ernst Museum, Budapest, 21 February 1921ff., lot 904 and was subsequently in the Baron von Born collection in Budapest (sold at Rudolph Lepke's, Berlin, 4 December 1929, lot 111), of which the beaker alone is now in the Kocher Collection, Historisches Museum, Bern, published by A. d'Agliano/E. Jezler-Hübner, Edles Gedeck Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Kocher (2003), no. 5.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 73
A Meissen armorial teapot and cover from the service for Christian VI of Denmark, circa 1730-35Each side painted with the royal arms of Christian VI of Denmark flanked by a landscape vignette with a large chinoiserie figure engaged in various pursuits, the scroll handle partially gilt with a sprig of iron-red indianische Blumen, the animal spout entirely gilt, the rim with a band of gilt scrollwork, the cover with a continuous harbour view with figures and trees, 12.3cm high, K.P.M in underglaze-blue, gilt 1. to both (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Given by Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, to King Christian VI of Denmark; his consortQueen Sophie Magdalene of Denmark (1700-70); Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, to 1794;Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, 1795-97;Sold in 1797 as part of lot 7 in the sale of property damaged in the 1795 fire at Christianborg Palace;Sold by the descendants of the purchaser in the above sale, Christie's London, 1 December 1986, lot 176Literature:G. Reinheckel, Meissener Prunkservice (1989), ill. 10;U. Pietsch/K. Jakobsen, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1997), no. 18;M. Bencard, Denmark and Saxony Family Ties and Meissen Porcelain Part 2, in M. Cassidy-Geiger (ed.), Fragile Diplomacy (2007). pp. 184-185Exhibited:Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 19 January-6 April 1997;Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Albertinum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 7 May-13 July 1997This service was unusual for its size as well as the combination of chinoiserie decoration and European harbour scenes. When it was sold in 1797 it was described as including two waste bowls, two sugar boxes and eighteen pairs of teabowls, but no coffee pot. The waste bowl, two beakers and saucers and two teabowls and saucers were acquired by Rosenborg Castle in 1986. A teabowl and saucer from the service was in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain (2008), no. 100); another is in the Carabelli Collection (U. Pietsch, Frühes Meißener Porzellan Sammlung Carabelli (2000), no. 57); and others were sold in these Rooms, from the Marouf Collection on 2 December 2015. lot 41, on 5 July 2018, lot 40, and on 22 July 2020, lot 45 (formerly in the Hoffmeister Collection, sold in these Rooms, 26 May 2010, lot 70). A Meissen desk set in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg is decorated with a fragment of a court calendar recording the birthdays of Christian VI and his consort, Sophia Magdalena, in 1735 (J. Lessmann, Porzellan (2006), p. 36).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 76
Two Meissen armorial double-handled beakers and saucers from the service for Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden, circa 1734Each finely painted with the arms of Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden on an elaborate gilt scrollwork pedestal, the beakers with Kauffahrtei and harbour scenes within gilt shaped quatrelobe scrollwork cartouches filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red and purple scrolls, the handles half gilt, the saucers with sprigs of indianische Blumen on the reverse, gilt foliate scrollwork borders to the rims, the beakers: 7cm high; the saucers: 13cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's marks : for Johann Martin Kittel to saucers (4)Footnotes:Provenance:Ordered by Augustus the Strong, probably in late 1732;Given by Augustus III of Poland and Saxony to Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden in May 1734;Transferred to the Royal Wardrobe after Queen Ulrika Eleonora's death in 1741;Anon. sale, Auktionverket Stockholm, 1 December 1992, lots 5247 and 5248Literature:U. Pietsch/K. Jakobsen, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1997), no. 19;L. Ljungström, Sweden, Hesse-Cassel, and Meissen, in M. Cassidy-Geiger (ed.), Fragile Diplomacy (2007), p. 265 and n. 24Exhibited:Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 19 January-6 April 1997;Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Albertinum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 7 May-13 July 1997Part of a lavish gift of Meissen porcelain presented to Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden in late May, 1734, by a Swedish colonel in the Saxon Swiss Guards, Count Axel Cronhielm, on behalf of Augustus III, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. The gift, which consisted of several services and sets of decorative objects, is mostly still preserved in Swedish collections (see Ljungström, pp.257-273). Queen Ulrika Eleonora (1688-1741), the daughter of Charles XI, reigned in her own right for only a short time, from the death of her brother in November 1718 until February 1720, when she abdicated in favour of her husband, Friedrich, Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel (Frederik I of Sweden). The political and diplomatic purpose of Augustus III's gifts to Queen Ulrika Eleonora and her husband, lay in his plans to succeed his father as King of Poland, although in a letter to the queen he himself claimed that the initiative for the gift was originally his father's (see Ljungström for a comprehensive discussion).The Meissen manufactory archives include a list dated 1st February 1733 of finished and unfinished porcelain for the gift to Sweden ('Was vor Ihro Königl. Majestät in Schweden an Porcellain Geschirren bereits verferttiget und noch zu verferttigen ist..'), which indicates that the present tea and chocolate service for the Queen had already been finished: '2 Thee- und Chocolade-Servise, als: 1 fein emaillirtes mit Seefahrten, Landschaften und Wappen (ist verferttiget und geliefert)..' (2 tea and chocolate services, as: 1 finely enamelled with sea journeys, landscapes and arms (is completed and delivered). An earlier report of August 1732 indicates that one tea service (as well as a small table service and two chimney garnitures) had already been completed (quoted by G. Reinheckel, Prachtvolle Service aus Meissner Porzellan (1989), p. 196, no. 66).An undated document quoted by Rainer Rückert suggests that the gift to Sweden was ordered by Augustus the Strong personally during a visit to Meissen before mid January 1733 (R. Rückert, R. Rückert, Alchemistische Symbolzeichen..., in Keramos 151 (1996), p. 86).The teapot, coffee pot, sugar bowl and cover, tea caddy and six teabowls and saucers, were given to Skokloster Castle in 1840 by Count Magnus Stenbock. They were probably inherited by his mother, Countess Lolotte Stenbock, from the estate of Princess Sofia Albertina of Sweden (1753-1829), whose Lady-in-Waiting she was (Ljungström 2007, loc. cit.). Two further beakers and saucers were sold in these rooms from the Hoffmeister Collection, 25 Nov 2009, lot 80, and 24 Nov 2010, lot 65. A waste bowl from the service was also in the Hoffmeister Collection and sold in these rooms, 26 May 2010, lot 69.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 26
Kaffee-/Teeservice, 59 Teile Kaffee-/Teeservice, 59 Teile Nymphenburg Porzellan. Weiß. Form "Perl". Press- und Stempelmarken, meist 2. Wahl. Bestehend aus Kaffee- und Teekanne, zwei Sahnekännchen, Zuckerdose, Konfitürendose, 16 Tassen mit Untertassen, 16 Dessertellern, Tortenplatte und einem runden und drei ovalen Kuchentellern. Kaffee-/Teeservice, 59 Teile A 59-piece coffee/tea service Nymphenburg Porcelain, white. Impressed marks and maker's marks, mostly 2nd choice. Consisting of coffee and teapot, two cream jugs, sugar bowl, jam box, 16 cups with saucers, 16 dessert plates, torte plate and one round and three oval cake plates.
Lot 845
Two small Sèvres cups and saucers (Gobelet Bouillard et Soucoupe), of the third size, painted by Louis-Jean Thévenet père (1705 - c. 1778), in the Neoclassical taste with chaplets of pink roses enclosing gilt dots, graduating outer-borders of gilt leafy fronds and green laureate garlands, intersecting triangular red and gilt diaper spandrels, bleu céleste bands with tooled gilt laurels, gilt line rims, scroll handles, the cups 5.4cm high, the saucers 11.6cm diam, painter's marks, one saucer incised: MC, the cups incised: CC and Ja, blue interlaced Ls, the saucers with date letter R for 1770, the cups T for 1772
Lot 733
A Caughlty Fence pattern coffee can, printed with fence, flowers and foliage, tramline border, C mark, c.1780; a similar Cormorant pattern tea bowl, Salopian mark; another, Fence pattern; a Caughley tea bowl and saucers, in underglaze blue with plough, hut and pine trees, Salopian mark, c.1760
Lot 765
English Porcelain - a Coalport Bute shaped teacup and saucer, c.1810; other Bute cups and saucers; Coalport Hamilton flute cup and saucer, c1800-05; a Coalport coffee cup, decorated with chantily sprigs, c.1800; Spode and other bat printed Bute shaped cups, c.1810; five J. Jamieson & Co Bo'ness pottery Bute shape cup and saucer, printed in monochrome with a rural scene, c1810
Lot 471
An 18th century Chinese Export porcelain eight-setting tea service, comprising a large saucer dish, a flared basin and tea bowls and saucers, painted in polychrome enamels with men and boys hunting, the borders with iron red stylized bats, birds and waterfowl, the saucer dish 20cm diam, Qianlong reign, c. 1780
Lot 52
A Royal Albert porcelain part dinner and tea service decorated in the Memory Lane pattern, comprising pair of vegetable tureens and covers, pair of oval dishes, gravy boat, eight dinner plates and fruit bowls, salt and pepper, teapot, cream jug, sugar bowl, sandwich plate, eight cups and saucers, ten tea plates and a butter dish cover. (a quantity)
Lot 275
A quantity of Royal Stafford 'Rochester' floral teaware to include cups, saucers, plates and side plates, a small quantity of vintage floral teaware, a 19th century blue and white oval plate and a smaller example, a boxed Aynsley 'Victorian Garden' oval plate and two Pendelfin bunny figures 'Rocky' and 'Wakey', etc.
Lot 260
A quantity of Royal Albert 'Serena' dinner and tea ware, registration no.839329 to include large plates, sandwich plates, side plates, cups, saucers, milk jug, etc and three vintage glass shades to include a large opaque ovoid example with peach flowers and a c1950s table lamp in the form of a crinoline lady (af) (2). CONDITION REPORT Every piece is checked. Just scratches, otherwise good.
Lot 236
A quantity of Oriental papier mâché teaware, black ground with gilt-heightened dragon decoration to include cups, saucers, bowls, large floral bowl etc, a quantity of cut glass and crystal ware to include bowls, vases, decorative baskets and a quantity of boxed Tetley collectable figures to include music stars, animals, etc (3).
Lot 274
Collection of nine coffee cans and saucers to include, Royal Crown Derby Imari pattern numbers 1128 and 2451, a late 19th century Royal Crown Derby with burnt orange, royal blue and gilt decoration, Crown Staffordshire decorated in the Imari palette painted with floral panels, Copeland floral and salmon scale border, also various other examples decorated with sprays of pink roses (9).
Lot 287
A mixed collection of Shelley Art Deco ceramics to include 'Bands and Lines', Bute Oxfordshire shape, no.C12317/120, three saucers, six side plates and sandwich plate, 'Blocks and Bands' Regent W1228 W cup and saucer, four saucers and four side plates, six various other plates and one other (26).
Lot 27
An early 20th century Wedgwood Black Astbury pattern part dinner service. This pattern is characterised by an opulent classical motif, hand-decorated with raised paste gilding and 22 carat gold detailing. Includes fifty eight pieces: 10 dinner plates, 10 coffee cups and saucers, 10 two handled soup bowls, 14 cheese plates and 4 medium plates. Largest plate 27cm diameter.
Lot 657
A USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D tea set from David Carson's sci-fi sequel Star Trek: Generations. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Captain of the USS Enterprise-D, was caught in a temporal nexus, where a version of his family sat for Christmas dinner.This lot consists of four blue and white bone china Pfaltzgraff tea cups featuring the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D emblem and four matching saucers, each of which is fired with gold. The lot is in excellent overall condition with minor wear along the bottoms from handling. Dimensions (cups, each): 12.75 cm x 7.75 cm x 10.25 cm (5" x 3" x 4"); (saucers, each): 15.25 cm x 15.25 cm x 2.5 cm (6" x 6" x 1")Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 ΩΔ
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