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Lot 264

A Meissen hexagonal vase, circa 1730

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

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A Meissen hexagonal vase, circa 1730

Decorated after a Japanese original in Kakiemon style with three scenes over two sides divided by green and blue foliate borders, depicting a figure facing a flowering prunus bush, a crane standing between peonies and stylised rockwork with another in flight, and birds with bamboo, flowering plants and rocks, the shoulder with scrolling foliage and three birds over the foliate borders, the neck with an iron-red key pattern, with a later faience cover with matching decoration, 22.4cm high including cover, caduceus mark in blue

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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 27 October 2001, lot 6

For a detailed discussion of the three different types of Meissen copies of Japanese hexagonal vases, see Julia Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), pp. 118-123. Julia Weber illustrates two Japanese examples with Parisian gilt-bronze mounts of around 1725-35 in the Musée du Louvre (ill. 20), and a similar Meissen vase in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Schloß Lustheim, cat. no. 108.

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