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Lot 36*

A Meissen two-handled écuelle, cover and stand, circa 1735-40

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

£10,000 - £12,000

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A Meissen two-handled écuelle, cover and stand, circa 1735-40

Superbly painted with Kauffahrtei scenes depicting merchants and their wares by a quayside, within a gilt cartouche of trellis panels and tassels embellished with purple trellis panels and foliate scrolls, the écuelle with a scene on either side and two gilt handles, the stand with a gilt dash border to the rim and three iron-red concentric circles around the gilt footrim, the cover with three scenes surmounted by a gilt branch handle, the stand: 17.2cm diam.; the écuelle and cover: 15cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed 1 inside footrim of écuelle (3)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's Paris, 15 May 2003, lot 387

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 92

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