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Lot 263

A rare Meissen octagonal two-handled beaker and saucer, circa 1730

6 December 2018, 16:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A rare Meissen octagonal two-handled beaker and saucer, circa 1730

Painted in a famille verte palette with a bird perched on rockwork flanked by Oriental flowers, insects in flight overhead, the rims with a honeycomb diaper band reserved with panels enclosing flowerheads and leaves, an iron-red flower inside the beaker, applied neatly-ribbed handles, the beaker 5.8cm high, caduceus and pseudo-Chinese marks within two concentric circles in underglaze-blue (2)

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Provenance:
Edmond de Rothschild Collection, sold Christie's London, 28 March 1977, lot 8;
Alfred Schwarzenbach Collection, sold Sotheby's London, 15 November 1994, lot 35

An identical two-handled beaker and saucer, from the Edmond de Rothschild and Eveline Newgas Collections, was sold in these Rooms, 15 June 2016, lot 48. Another, also formerly in the Edmond de Rothschild collection, is now in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), no. 87.). All have the same combination of caduceus and pseudo Chinese flower marks in underglaze-blue.

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