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A rare gilt-metal-mounted Meissen underglaze ('powder')-blue-ground bourdalou, circa 1730
18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£14,000 - £18,000
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A rare gilt-metal-mounted Meissen underglaze ('powder')-blue-ground bourdalou, circa 1730
Each side reserved with a lobed panel edged with gilt scrollwork, painted, possibly by C.F. Herold, with an elaborate Kauffahrtei scene depicting merchants and their wares by a quayside, the front reserved with a smaller panel painted with a similar subject in purple monochrome, the panels divided by gilt trellis panels enclosed by foliate scrollwork, the inside with a similar scene in purple monochrome within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and embellished with iron-red and purple scrollwork, the inside rim with a border of gilt scrollwork below a gilt band, the rim with a gilt-metal collar, mounted on a gilt-metal scrollwork base with foliate scrollwork handles, 19.8cm high; 25.5cm across handles, faint crossed swords mark in blue, incised v inside footrim (handle lacking, minor wear)
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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Lempertz Cologne, 20-22 May 1985, lot 542
A similarly shaped bourdalou with chinoiserie decoration is illustrated by R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (1966), no. 188.
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