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A Meissen purple-ground double-handled beaker and saucer circa 1735-38 image 1
A Meissen purple-ground double-handled beaker and saucer circa 1735-38 image 2
Lot 109

A Meissen purple-ground double-handled beaker and saucer
circa 1735-38

25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen purple-ground double-handled beaker and saucer

circa 1735-38
Superbly painted with Kauffahrtei scenes of merchants and their wares by a quayside, on each side of the beaker within a quatrelobe gilt scrollwork cartouche, the scene on the saucer within a more elaborate cartouche embellished with trellis panels filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red and purple foliate scrollwork, the rims with gilt formal basketwork borders, the ear-shaped handles edged in gilding, the beaker: 6.8cm high, the saucer:12.9cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 25 June 1979, lot 184 (part);
Acquired in 1989

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 274

Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009

Two more beakers and saucers from the same service are in the Carabelli Collection (Pietsch 2000, nos. 106-107, where the painting is attributed to Christian Friedrich Herold). Another double handled beaker and saucer and a teabowl and saucer are in a private collection in New York.

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