The Sir Bruno Welby Collection of Porcelain - 06 Feb 2025

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A group of German porcelain teawares, c.1770-90, all with bird decoration, including a Höchst coffee

£200 - £300

£441

A group of German porcelain teawares, c.1770-90, all with bird decoration, including a Höchst coffee cup and saucer painted with farmyard birds including a turkey, probably by Joseph Angele or Johann Heinrich Usinger, another coffee cup painted with a willow warbler, a Berlin cup painted with a goldfinch after a design by Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel, a Furstenberg teacup and saucer painted with bird subjects, possibly by Johann Christof Kind, a Nymphenburg cup and saucer painted with game and song birds amidst trees, and a Nymphenburg teacup with a bird in a tree, hexagram mark to the latter, 13.4cm max. (9)

Cf. Metropolitan Museum, Inv. No.2007.243 for a Höchst service of bird decoration with pieces signed by Angele and Usinger.

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