Meissen Art Nouveau Porcelain, Hot Chocolate Cup, Model Saxonia, Oe Voigt 1904

Royal Meissen Manufactory – Art Nouveau Cocoa / Chocolate Cup, Saxonia Pattern, Design Otto Eduard Voigt, March 1904Otto Eduard Voigt (Dresden 1870 – Meissen 1949) · Royal Meissen Manufactory · Knauf Sword Mark · Underglaze Light Grey and Cobalt Blue · Very Rare

A Meissen porcelain cocoa / chocolate cup, Saxonia pattern, designed by Otto Eduard Voigt in March 1904 and executed by the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen circa 1904–1910. Height 8 cm · height with handle 9.5 cm · diameter 7 cm. Marks on the base: knauf crossed swords (Knaufschwerter). Very good original condition. Of extreme rarity.

The Saxonia cocoa cup — taller and more capacious than the coffee cup of the same service — is the rarest piece in the Saxonia production: unlike the coffee cups and tea services, cocoa and chocolate cups were produced in very limited quantities and are today virtually unobtainable on the market. The Saxonia decoration — sinuous underglaze botanical motifs in pale grey and cobalt blue — represents one of the most radically Art Nouveau contributions to Meissen's production of the period, contemporary with the creations of Rudolf Hentschel (Flügelmuster, 1901), Henry van de Velde (Peitschenhieb, 1904) and Richard Riemerschmid (Rispe, 1904). The Saxonia pattern is reproduced on page 245 of the reference catalogue Jugendstil in Dresden (1999).

Public collections: Bröhan-Museum, Berlin · Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge · Rijksmuseum Amsterdam · Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle · The Wolfsonian — Florida International University.

Otto Eduard Voigt (Dresden, 1870 – Meissen, 1949) worked as painter and designer at the Meissen Manufactory from 1896 to 1932, playing a determining role in the pioneering development of the high-fire technique (Scharffeuertechnik).

• Height: 8 cm · Height with handle: 9.5 cm · Diameter: 7 cm
• Decoration: Saxonia · underglaze pale grey and cobalt blue
• Marks: knauf crossed swords (Knaufschwerter)
• Design: Otto Eduard Voigt, March 1904
• Production: Royal Porcelain Manufactory Meissen, circa 1904–1910
• Literature: Jugendstil in Dresden, Aufbruch in die Moderne, cat. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Edition Minerva, 1999, p. 245 · Just, Johannes, Meissener Jugendstil-Porzellan, Leipzig, 1983, ill. 94–95 · Porzellan, Kunst und Design 1889–1939, Catalogue Vol. V/2, Bröhan-Museum Berlin, 1996, p. 52, ill. 24
• Public collections: Bröhan-Museum Berlin · Harvard Art Museums · Rijksmuseum Amsterdam · Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle · The Wolfsonian, Miami
• Condition: very good original condition

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Available for viewing by appointment at our Düsseldorf gallery.
Further pieces from the Saxonia service are available in our gallery — coffee cups, cocoa cups, saucers, serving pieces and other elements. Collectors wishing to build or complete a Saxonia service are warmly invited to contact us directly.

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