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A rare Meissen two-handled écuelle, cover and stand, circa 1735-40 image 1
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Lot 88

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

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

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

Decorated with lobed gilt scrollwork cartouches embellished with Böttger lustre and edged in black, enclosing Kauffahrtei scenes of merchants and their wares by a quayside, and European landscape scenes, further painted with scattered butterflies and insects in Oriental style, gilt-edged rims, the scroll handles moulded with acanthus leaves and embellished in gilding, the stand: 23.5cm diam.; the ecuelle: 23.3cm across handles, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark E to the stand for Johann Gottfried Eckoldt (very minor rubbing) (3)

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Provenance:
Anon. Sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 26-27 June 2007, lot 136

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