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Lot 35

A Meissen two-handled tureen stand, circa 1740-50

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A Meissen two-handled tureen stand, circa 1740-50

Of quatrelobe form with two gilt-edged scroll handles, painted in Kakiemon style with a bird in flight above flowers and banded hedges issuing from stylised rockwork and flower sprigs around the brown-edged rim, 41cm across handles, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 27, gilt- and puce-painted owner's monogram 'vH' (both handles restuck)

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Further pieces from the same service with still unidentfied owner's monogram 'vH' are in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim; published by Julia Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), nos. 207-211. A very similar two-handled stand from the same service was in the Czermak Collection, Munich, sold by Galerie Helbing, Munich, 15-16 May 1917, lot 60.

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