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A rare Meissen bourdalou, circa 1724 image 1

A rare Meissen bourdalou, circa 1724 image 2

A rare Meissen bourdalou, circa 1724 image 3

Lot 14^*

A rare Meissen bourdalou, circa 1724

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The Marouf Collection, Part I: highly important 18th century Meissen porcelain

5 December 2012, 13:30 GMT

London, New Bond Street

£50,000 - £60,000

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A rare Meissen bourdalou, circa 1724

Each side decorated with a superbly painted chinoiserie scene within a quatrelobe gilt scrollwork cartouche embellished with iron-red and purple foliate scrollwork, depicting on one side, an amorous couple in a tent observed by other figures with children and animals to one side, the reverse with ladies bathing by a pavillion accompanied by other figures and animals, each end and the handle with sprays of indianische Blumen, the interior with a similar cartouche depicting a monkey washing the feet of a seated figure, elaborate gilt scroll and strapwork borders to inside and outside rims, 22.5cm long (haircrack, gilding worn)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Franz and Margarete Oppenheimer Collection, Berlin;
Fritz Mannheimer Collection, Amsterdam (acquired in 1936), sold by
Fredrik Müller & Cie., Amsterdam, 14-21 October 1952, lot 310,
Max Hoffmann Collection, Basel, sold by Christie's London, 21 November 2005, lot 10

Literature:
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer, Meissener Porzellan (1927), no. 163, pls. 70 and 71;
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 24

Exhibited:
Geneva, Musée Ariana, Au pays de l'or blanc, 1999

Similar bourdalous are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (A.L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (2000), no. 95); in the Ernst Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim, Munich (R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (1966), no. 188); and in the North Bohemian Museum, Liberec (Reichenberg).

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