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Lot 278
A Meissen vase and cover, circa 1737-45
6 December 2018, 16:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,000 inc. premium
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A Meissen vase and cover, circa 1737-45
Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, of ovoid form with a flared neck and scroll handles with female bust terminals, finely painted with a landscape scene depicting a peasant family, the reverse with a flower bouquet, further painted with scattered butterflies and insects, the handle edged in puce, turquoise, yellow and blue and the heads naturalistically coloured, the domed cover with a smaller vignette and scattered butterflies and insects, surmounted by a flower-bouquet finial, gilt-edged rims, 37cm high, erased patch to underside of base, impressed Dreher's mark + within a circle (minor chips and restoration) (2)
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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 28 February 1994, lot 242;
Dr. Roy Byrnes Collection, California, sold Christie's London, 12 May 2010, lot 98
Two similarly decorated vases without handles (42cm high) - possibly originally part of garniture including the present lot - were in the collection of Geheimrat W., Dresden, sold by Lepke's Berlin, 24 February 1937, lot 557. Another unusually shaped vase (39.5cm high) similarly decorated with a landscape scene of peasants, a flower bouquet and insects, in the Duca di Martina Museum in Naples (inv. 2550) may also belong to the garniture.
The painting of the flower bouquet and the scattered butterflies and insects in the manner of Jacob Hoefnagel, as well as the elaborate flower finial and gilt line borders, are also closely related to three similarly-shaped vases (without handles) in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, published by A.L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (2000), nos. 235 and 236, there dated to around 1740 (all having impressed Dreher's marks). Another two-handled vase of the same form but decorated in green monochrome with Watteauesque scenes and with an elaborate mount is illustrated in M. Cassidy-Geiger (ed.), Fragile Diplomacy (2007), fig. 7-28. Two more of around 1735, painted with Oriental flowers and part of a garniture owned by Frederick the Great of Prussia, are in Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam (S. Wittwer, "hat der König von Preußen die schleunige Verfettigung verschiedener Bestellungen ernstlich begehret" - Friedrich der Große und das Meißener Porzellan, in Keramos 208 (2010), ills. 8 and 9.
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