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A very rare Meissen armorial cloche, circa 1740 image 1
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Lot 105

A very rare Meissen armorial cloche, circa 1740

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14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A very rare Meissen armorial cloche, circa 1740

Of high, domed form, painted with a coat of arms in puce monochrome and two large bushes of flowers with a bird perched on each in Kakiemon style and scattered flowers and insects, brown-edged wavy rim, mounted with a gilt-metal handle on a foliate base, 32cm diam.

Footnotes

Several pieces of a table service with the same unidentified arms and Kakiemon-style decoration are recorded, including an oval sugar bowl and cover in the Victoria & Albert Museum (inv. no. C.92&A-1929), a tureen in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Dresden, and a plate in the Hoffmeister Collection (D. Hoffmeister, Meissen Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts: Sammlung Hoffmeister (1999), vol. II, no. 358, where the author lists published pieces). See also J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbilden (2013), II, cat. no. 465; the author notes (n.2) that only one cloche is recorded and that the matching stand is in the David Collection, Copenhagen. A tankard with the same arms was sold in these Rooms, 11 December 2013, lot 164, and another was in the Jacques Mühsam Collection, Berlin (sold by Glückselig Vienna, 27-30 April 1935, lot 56).

Saleroom notices

Please note, there is a restored crack which runs from the edge of the rim up and underneath the finial mount.

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