A Meissen butter dish circa 1740
51*
A rare Meissen oval butter dish and cover, circa 1740
With pierced lug handles and moulded gilt bindings, painted in Kakiemon style with scattered indianische Blumen, the cover with a phoenix in flight and another perched on banded hedges issuing flowers, applied with a gilt-edged elongated scrolling handle, 13.5cm across, traces of crossed swords mark in blue, impressed 46 (small rim section of cover restuck, one lug restored) (2)
Estimate:
£3,000 - 5,000
€3,500 - 5,800
US$ 4,500 - 7,500

Footnotes

  • Literature:
    Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 162

    A closely similar butter dish is in the David Collection, Copenhagen (Erik Lassen, Davids Samling Meissen Porcelaen (1985), no. 64.

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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