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Lot 166

A Meissen cream pot, cover and stand, circa 1730

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

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A Meissen cream pot, cover and stand, circa 1730

Painted in Imari style in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding, with sprays of indianische Blumen and lambrequin borders. the reverse of the stand with flowering branches in underglaze-blue and iron-red, the stand: 15.5cm diam., caduceus mark and crossed swords mark with a dot in underglaze-blue (minor chips, the stand with repaired rim section, rim chip and haircrack) (3)

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

Similar cream pots, covers and stands - the earliest examples of this Imari-style decoration on Meissen porcelain - are in the Hans Syz Collection (Syz/Miller/Rückert, Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (1979), no. 124, and in the Grassi Museum, Leipzig (D. Gielke, Meissener Porzellan des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts (2003). no. 68).

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