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Lot 105
A rare Meissen octagonal yellow-ground double-handled beaker and saucer circa 1735
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street£10,000 - £12,000
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Find your local specialistA rare Meissen octagonal yellow-ground double-handled beaker and saucer
circa 1735
The beaker reserved on each side with a purple-edged panel painted with indianische Blumen and, on one side, butterflies and a phoenix, the saucer similarly decorated, the scroll-handles edged in gilding, the well of the beaker with a flower spray, the beaker: 8cm high, the saucer: 13.6cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised // inside footrim of saucer (2)
The beaker reserved on each side with a purple-edged panel painted with indianische Blumen and, on one side, butterflies and a phoenix, the saucer similarly decorated, the scroll-handles edged in gilding, the well of the beaker with a flower spray, the beaker: 8cm high, the saucer: 13.6cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised // inside footrim of saucer (2)
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Provenance:
Baroness Renée de Becker;
Mr. and Mrs. Deane Johnson, Bel Air, California, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 9 December 1972, lot 49;
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 17 June 1975, lot 152;
Acquired in 1993
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 269
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
A second beaker and saucer, also formerly in the de Becker and Johnson collections, was sold by Sotheby's London, 21 October 1975, lot 107.
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