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Porcelain and faience have been an important part of Koller’s auctions since its founding, reflecting the long tradition of serious ceramic collecting in Switzerland. Many important collections of porcelain and faience have been offered by Koller, including works from the Dr Siegfried Ducret collection, the Dr Paul and Ursula Müller-Frei collection, and the collection of René and Friederike Felber.

Works from Meissen, Sèvres, Strasbourg, Nymphenburg, Du Paquier, Zurich, as well as Italian Maiolica and creations from Imperial Russia are avidly sought after by a discerning buying public, sometimes attaining record prices: for example, a rare and important Meissen ‘crinoline’ group from the Müller-Frei collection sold for a record CHF 214 000. Among the other highlights in recent years are a rare Meissen candlestick modelled by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner that sold for CHF 78 000, a large Meissen figure of a great crested grebe modelled by Kändler that changed hands for CHF 144 000, and an important Meissen travel service bearing the arms of the Venetian patrician family Correr sold for CHF 114 000.

Sabine Neumaier, Head of Department for Porcelain & Faience, is available to estimate single items or entire collections for our upcoming auctions. Our Decorative Arts auctions are held in March and September. Consignments are accepted until mid-January for our March auctions, and late July for our September sales.


Top results from past sales

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

17 September 2026. Are you looking to sell porcelain at our upcoming auction? Contact us for a free, non-binding valuation.

ibid online only: 22 September 2026


Valuations / Consignments

Sabine Neumaier, porcelain specialist at Koller

If you wish to consign to one of our auctions, we will value your artworks free of charge. Please send us photos if possible, or call us. We will arrange an appointment to view your property at your home or in one of our offices in Zurich, Geneva, Florence, Munich or Düsseldorf. You will then receive our auction estimates so that you can make your decision.

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SELECTED RESULTS Porcelain & Ceramics

MAIOLICA ISTORIATO "SCODELLA" - The Embden Collection

Probably Venice (or Urbino), ca. 1560.
The deep, protruding shape is painted green, ocher, yellow, and blue with a mythological scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Diana and Callisto. The compact depiction shows the Goddess of the Hunt, Diana, on the right edge of the picture, into whose figure Jupiter transforms himself in order to seduce her companion Callisto, who is later transformed into a bear by Jupiter's jealous wife Juno. Ocher-yellow border and line borders on the back.
Ø 30 cm.
Chipped rim.

CHF 13 750 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

A214 / 1109*
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MAIOLICA ISTORIATO "SCODELLA" - The Embden Collection
MAIOLICA ISTORIATO "SCODELLA" - The Embden Collection

CHF 13 750

MAJOLICA AMPHORA VASE - The Embden Collection

Urbino, Patanazzi workshop, ca. 1580.
With double serpentine handles on the sides above ocher mascarons. Painted on both sides with a quatrefoil cartouche in an architectural frame flanked by two cherubs, painted in blue camaïeu in the center with sea creatures, Triton, and Nereid, on a white background with grotesque painting.
H 52 cm.
Restored.

CHF 22 500 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

A214 / 1128*
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MAJOLICA AMPHORA VASE - The Embden Collection
MAJOLICA AMPHORA VASE - The Embden Collection

CHF 22 500

LARGE FAIENCE “DELFTWARE” PLATTER - The Embden Collection

probably England, Southwark, dated 1646.
The well features an intimate scene with a monk and a woman embracing, observed by a fellow monk hidden behind a curtain. The lip of the plate is decorated with textile leaves, dated and monogrammed “BM 1646” in blue on the verso.
Ø 48 cm.
Repaired with clamps.

CHF 43 750 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

A214 / 1132*
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LARGE FAIENCE “DELFTWARE” PLATTER - The Embden Collection
LARGE FAIENCE “DELFTWARE” PLATTER - The Embden Collection

CHF 43 750

IZNIK POTTERY PLATE WITH BLUE DECORATION

Turkey, Ottoman Empire, ca. 1560–70.
Painted in a greyish blue, the center with a rosette and radial, stylized leaf decoration with pointed arches in a double-lined border, surrounded with seven floral motifs. Stylized “breaking waves” border on the lip. The back with alternating chinoiserie and leaf decoration. The foot ring with a drilled hole for mounting.
Ø 28 cm.

CHF 36 250 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

A212 / 1039
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IZNIK POTTERY PLATE WITH BLUE DECORATION
IZNIK POTTERY PLATE WITH BLUE DECORATION

CHF 36 250

A PAIR OF HARE

Meissen, ca. 1750. Design by J. J. Kändler.
Each on the lookout with erect ears, the buck sitting erect, the doe tensed, resting on her haunches, the fur naturalistically hatched and painted in shades of brown. Colorfully painted on elongated terrain pedestals decorated with applied flowers and leaves. Underglaze-blue sword marks on the backs of the pedestals.
H 14.5 cm, 16 cm.

CHF 37 500 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

A212 / 1188*
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A PAIR OF HARE
A PAIR OF HARE

CHF 37 500

TWO FAIENCE TROMPE L'OEIL LIDDED TUREENS DESIGNED AS DUCKS

Strasbourg, Paul Anton Hannong, ca. 1745–54. Model by Johann Wilhelm Lanz (1748–54).
Naturalistically modeled, almost as a pair, the drake in colorful plumage, the hen in monochrome, both finely painted and hatched. The drake's lid and tureen marked 12 in underglaze blue. The hen with handwritten inventory number XVI, 312.
H 28 cm, L 37 cm, 35 cm.

CHF 50 000 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

A212 / 1191*
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TWO FAIENCE TROMPE L'OEIL LIDDED TUREENS DESIGNED AS DUCKS
TWO FAIENCE TROMPE L'OEIL LIDDED TUREENS DESIGNED AS DUCKS

CHF 50 000

PROVENANCE PRIVATE COLLECTION LAKE GENEVA RARE COVERED BOWL AND STAND ("OLIENBECHER")

Meissen, ca. 1723-24.
Conical tureen with angular handles and a finial. Very finely painted with quatrefoil cartouches flattened at the sides above a gold-tipped console with brown luster and iron-red embossed feathered leaves, depicting various chinoiserie scenes on a planted terrace with large-figure, amusing Chinese scenes on the edge of the cartouches. The cover, tureen and platter with corresponding gold lace borders. The inside of the tureen with a brown luster ground, a gold lace border on the upper rim, a bird in gold on both parts and a gold-leaf decoration on the lid. Two flowering branches in iron-red and green on the underside of the platter. Both foot rings and the lid rim with a gilt silver mount. Underglaze blue sword mark and .K.P.M. on the underside of the tureen, platter unmarked.
11.5 × 10.5 cm, Ø 17.5 cm.

CHF 27 500 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

A210 / 1128
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PROVENANCE PRIVATE COLLECTION LAKE GENEVA RARE COVERED BOWL AND STAND ("OLIENBECHER")
PROVENANCE PRIVATE COLLECTION LAKE GENEVA RARE COVERED BOWL AND STAND ("OLIENBECHER")

CHF 27 500

PROVENANCE PRIVATE COLLECTION LAKE GENEVA ROYAL CASSEROLE, “REINTEL” WITH PLATTER

Meissen, probably ca. 1745-50, model by J. J. Kändler.
Each piece is painted with the Royal Alliance coat of arms of Poland, Saxony and Habsburg. Painted with Watteau scenes in the island style, courtly figures in park landscape vignettes and “Deutsche Blumen” with gold latticework borders on the rim. The finial of the lid applied with a sculpted lemon finial with leaves. On three legs with scrolled feet. Underglaze blue sword marks, press number 22 on the platter.
Ø 15,7 cm, 26,6 cm.

CHF 32 500 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

A210 / 1171
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PROVENANCE PRIVATE COLLECTION LAKE GENEVA ROYAL CASSEROLE, “REINTEL” WITH PLATTER
PROVENANCE PRIVATE COLLECTION LAKE GENEVA ROYAL CASSEROLE, “REINTEL” WITH PLATTER

CHF 32 500

A PAIR OF PORCELAIN BUDAIS

Venice, Geminiano Cozzi (1764-1812) Manufactory, ca. 1800.
The female figure has topknot, her green-lined coat features a rosette decoration in purple and yellow, edged in gold. The mail figure is wearing a coat with a textile decoration in purple and blue with gilded edges. Without marks.
H 13,5 cm, 13 cm.

CHF 27 500 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

A210 / 1214*
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A PAIR OF PORCELAIN BUDAIS
A PAIR OF PORCELAIN BUDAIS

CHF 27 500

A MARKET STALL "MARCHAND D'ESTAMPES" FROM THE "VENETIAN FAIR” SERIES

Ludwigsburg, c. 1768-70. After designs by G. F. P. Riedel.
The interior painted with engravings, the ceiling with manganese decoration. The frame crowned by a cartouche with gold decoration and inscribed “Marchand d’estampes". Underglaze blue electoral hat with CC monogram.
16 × 14 × 7 cm

CHF 21 250 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

A206 / 1201
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A MARKET STALL "MARCHAND D'ESTAMPES" FROM THE "VENETIAN FAIR” SERIES
A MARKET STALL "MARCHAND D'ESTAMPES" FROM THE "VENETIAN FAIR” SERIES

CHF 21 250