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Lot 273
A Meissen Augustus Rex turquoise-ground vase with hunting scenes, circa 1739-40
6 December 2018, 16:00 GMT
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A Meissen Augustus Rex turquoise-ground vase with hunting scenes, circa 1739-40
Probably painted by J.G. Heintze, the main body and foot reserved with large gilt-edged escutcheon-shaped cartouches, one side depicting finely painted hunting scenes with hunters and their hounds in landscapes, the other painted in Kakiemon style with two birds perched on flowering chrysanthemum and peony branches issuing from stylised rockwork, the sides with quatrelobe panels of a green cracked-ice ground around stylised flowerheads between panels with demi-flowers in the corners surrounded by foliage on a green ground, the neck with an elaborate scrollwork border and scattered flower sprays, 42.5cm high, AR mark in underglaze-blue (part of neck restuck with associated restored haircrack along one side)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 7 July 1997, lot 303
Literature:
R. Roos (ed.), Meissen SO-IL, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (2011), p. 30
Exhibited:
Amersfoort, Kunsthal KAdE, Meissen SO-IL, 28 May-28 August 2011
A pair of similarly-shaped vases and covers from the same garniture are now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Irwin Untermyer Collection, illustrated in Y. Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (1956), fig. 112. A beaker vase from the same garniture was given by Irwin Untermyer to the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown (inv. no. 54.35), and three more vases (two beaker-shaped and one ovoid) with later gilt-metal mounts were sold by Sotheby's London, 9 October 1973, lot 107. It is likely that all these vases formed part of the same garniture, which was doubtless made for Augustus III, perhaps for Schloss Moritzburg.
A garniture consisting of nine vases (five ovoid covered vases and four beaker-shaped vases) decorated with a yellow-ground and hunting scenes was ordered by Augustus III for Schloss Hubertusburg - four are now in the Dresden Porcelain Collection, three are in the Warsaw Museum and two are in a private American collection (illustrated in U. Pietsch et al., Porzellan Parforce Jagdliches Meißner Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts (2005), nos. 50-58). Some of the hunting scenes are taken from prints after J.E. Ridinger and it seems likely that these were also the source for the scenes on the turquoise-ground garniture including the present lot.
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