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A rare Meissen large beaker, circa 1723 image 1
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Lot 12

A rare Meissen large beaker, circa 1723

5 December 2012, 13:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£30,000 - £40,000

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A rare Meissen large beaker, circa 1723

Superbly painted with a continuous chinoiserie scene depicting figures engaged in various amusing pursuits, flanked by exotic animals, vases with flowers and coral, fences, trees and flowers, between moulded borders of bellflowers and acanthus leaves embellished in gilding, burnished gilt rims, the footrim with a border of iron-red concentric loops, 11.8cm high (some flaking to gilt rim)

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Literature:
Siegfried Ducret, Keramik und Graphik (1973), ill. 358

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