A very rare Meissen silver-gilt-mounted armorial tankard and an associated cover, circa 1735-40
Painted with a puce coat-of-arms (possibly Hopfner or Höpfner) flanked by colourful indianische Blumen issuing, on the left, from banded hedges and on the right from bamboo, with a bird perched on each side and a butterfly on the left, with further flowering branches below and flanking the handle and scattered sprigs to the front and to the gilt-edged handle, the contemporary associated cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a ball finial with gilt and iron-red floral motif, the cover and foot with silver-gilt mounts with a scroll thumbpiece, 18.9cm high
Estimate:
£10,000 - 15,000
€12,000 - 18,000
US$ 15,000 - 23,000
€12,000 - 18,000
US$ 15,000 - 23,000
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel;
Private Collection, Switzerland
Literature:
Pauls-Eisenbeiss 1972, vol. I, p. 418f.
Several pieces of a table service with the same arms and Kakiemon-style decoration are recorded, including an oval sugar bowl and cover in the Victoria & Albert Museum (inv. no. C.92&A-1929), a tureen in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Dresden, and a plate in the Hoffmeister Collection (D. Hoffmeister, Meissen Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts: Sammlung Hoffmeister (1999), vol. II, no. 358, where the author lists published pieces). A similar tankard with a silver cover was in the Mühsam Collection.
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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