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Lot 29
An extremely rare Meissen saucer, circa 1723-24
5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,500 inc. premium
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An extremely rare Meissen saucer, circa 1723-24
Painted with a winter scene depicting a figure wearing a fur-lined coat holding two squirrels by a table and tree-stump with mountains in the distance, within a quatrelobe gilt scrollwork cartouche embellished with Böttger lustre and iron-red scrollwork, the rim with a border of gilt scrollwork, the reverse with three iron-red concentric circles, 12.2cm diam., incised // inside footrim (minor surface wear)
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This extremely rare depiction of a fur-clad figure holding small furry animals in a wintry landscape is most closely related to the celebrated "Canada bowl" in the collection of the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (inv. no. G83.1.1258). The two scenes, which depict figures with similar animals and - on one side - wearing closely similar fur-lined clothes, are based on Carel Allard's Orbis Habitabilis Oppida et Vestitus, with engravings by Aldert Meijer, published around 1695 in Amsterdam. The book, which is based upon an earlier work by Johannes de Ram, was subsequently reprinted in several versions in the early 18th century. The scene with the fur-clad figures, similar to the present lot, is titled Straat Davis en Hudson [the Davis Strait in Hudson Bay], while the second, originally titled Nieu Amsterdam at New York, was renamed Canada in later editions. See Meredith Chilton, The Canada Bowl, in Rotunda 26 (1995), pp. 26-33.
A saucer in the V & A Museum, London (inv. no. G.351A-1918) depicting two figures after another plate from Allard's Orbis Habitabilis.., there titled "Engelse Quakers en Tabak Planters aende Barbados" but based on an earlier 17th century engraving depicting New York around 1643 (M. Gutter, A Notable Discovery: The Earliest Depiction of Americans on European Porcelain, in Keramos 207 (2010), ills. 2, 3 & 8), is likely from the same service as the "Canada bowl". The borders on the present lot differ slightly and it may be from another, contemporary service.
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