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Lot 156

Two small Meissen table vases from the "Gelber Löwe" service for the Warsaw court, circa 1740

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

£1,000 - £1,500

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Two small Meissen table vases from the "Gelber Löwe" service for the Warsaw court, circa 1740

Painted in Kakiemon style with, on one side, flowering peony bushes, and a tier curling around bamboo on the reverse, 6.2cm high, one with crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (flat rim chip to both) (2)

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Provenance:
British Private Collection, assembled in the 1950s and 1960s

Five hundred and eight such vases were delivered to the Warsaw court confectionary (Hofkonditorei) in 1738; see J. Weber, Meissener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern (2013), II, p. 262. A similar pair of small bottles is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (A.L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (2000), no. 146.

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