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A rare Meissen double-handled oval basket, circa 1736 image 1
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Lot 106

A rare Meissen double-handled oval basket, circa 1736

3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A rare Meissen double-handled oval basket, circa 1736

Probably modelled by J.J. Kaendler, with a basketwork exterior applied with two handles with a gilt flower, each with a male and female terminal emblematic of the Seasons and embellished in enamel colours, the interior base painted with bamboo flanked by flowers, the sides with sprigs of indianische Blumen and insects below a geometric and foliate border, 25.5cm across handles, crossed swords mark in blue (minor chips)

Footnotes

This large basket model may be the one referred to by Kaendler is his work notes for September 1736: 'Ein Körpgen Von ziemlicher Größe nach einer darzu gegebenen Zeichnung in Thon geflochten und gefertiget mit Henckeln, woran die 4 Jahres zeiten durch die gewöhnlich Gesichter, welche mit Früchten verzieret sind, vorgestellt worden [A basket of large size after a supplied drawing modelled in clay and finished with handles on which the Four Seasons are represented by the usual faces decorated with fruit] (quoted by J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, II (2013), p. 189; for another example of the form without the masks cat. no. 161).

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