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Lot 58

A Meissen scent flask, circa 1745-50

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen scent flask, circa 1745-50

Modelled by J.G. Ehder as a miniature baluster vase with ram's head handles and moulded cartouches painted with the 'Schmetterling' pattern, 5.7cm high (tiny flat chip)

Footnotes

Literature:
H. Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz (1982), no. 195;
U. Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung (1994), no. 50

Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 'Meissener Porzellan aus Hamburger Privatbesitz', 4 June-5 September 1982;
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

The model for this vase was listed by Johann Gottlieb Ehder in his work notes in March 1744 as being for Heinrich Graf von Brühl (quoted by J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), p. 355). Forty-eight apparently unpainted examples were sent from Dresden to the Warsaw Court Pantry in 1746, and another fifty entered the Warsaw Court Pantry in 1750 (ibid.).

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