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Lot 15*

A Meissen beaker, circa 1725

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

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A Meissen beaker, circa 1725

Painted with a continuous chinoiserie depicting three figures seated at a table playing a board game, flanked by other figures, a peacock, vases with cacti and flowers, a tree and flowering bush, gilt scrollwork borders to both sides of rim, gilt gadrooned footrim, 7.5cm high, gilt mark z. (chip to footrim)

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Provenance:
Baronne Alix de Rothschild, Paris, sold by Christie's London, 28 June 1976, lot 175;
Marianne and Hans Krieger Collection

Literature:
Hermann Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz (1982), no. 48;
Ulrich Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1993), no. 39;
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 28

Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Meissener Porzellan in Hamburger Privatbesitz, 1982;
Lübeck, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgschichte, St. Annen-Museum, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung, 14 November 1993-31 January 1994;
Aachen, Museum der Stadt Aachen, Couven Museum, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung, 26 February-30 April 1994

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