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Lot 56

Two Meissen cutlery handles, circa 1740

Fine European Ceramics

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST

London, New Bond Street

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Two Meissen cutlery handles, circa 1740

Painted in Kakiemon style with the 'koreanischer Löwe', or 'Ch'i-lin' pattern, with contemporary silver and metal mounts, the porcelain handles: 6cm long (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's London, 9 October 1973, lot 174 (part lot)

Literature:
U. Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung (1993), no. 48

Exhibited:
Lübeck, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck - St. Annen-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung', 14 November-31 January 1994;
Aachen, Museen der Stadt Aachen - Couven Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung', 26 February-20 April 1994

This pattern was produced at Meissen from the 1730s and is based on a Chinese 'famille verte' model. It isn't known for whom the pattern was first made, though an oil or vinegar pot marked 'K.H.C.' shows that the pattern was used by the Dresden Court (J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, p. 370). The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists: 'Sieben und Dreyßig Dutzendt degl. [Messer-Hefte] mit gemahlten rothen Drachen, nebst Drey Stück großen, No. 343' [thirty-seven dozen the same [knife handles] with painted red dragon, along with three large, no. 343] (quoted by C. Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in Keramos 153 (1996) p. 86).

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