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A rare Meissen underglaze-blue decorated ovoid jug, circa 1730 image 1
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Lot 27

A rare Meissen underglaze-blue decorated ovoid jug, circa 1730

5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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A rare Meissen underglaze-blue decorated ovoid jug, circa 1730

Painted in underglaze-blue with chinoiserie landscape vignettes of rockwork and flowering shrubs and a building amidst rolling hills and trees, scattered insects and a bird in flight above, 17.8cm high, pseudo-Chinese character in underglaze-blue

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Only three similar ovoid jugs decorated in underglaze-blue are recorded: two in the porcelain collection in Dresden (Meissener Blaumalerei aus drei Jahrhunderten (1989), nos. 53 and 54; the first (no. 53), acquired in 1890 from the Carl Spitzner Collection, Dresden, is also marked with a pseudo-Chinese character and is painted with a chinoiserie figure and plants; the second is decorated after a Japanese Kakiemon pattern). The third example is in the Henry Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), no. 165).

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