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A Meissen oval double-handled tureen and cover, circa 1736
3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£50,000 - £70,000
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A Meissen oval double-handled tureen and cover, circa 1736
Painted by Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck with polychrome Chinoiserie scenes of figures and animals engaged at various pursuits surrounded by indianische Blumen, details heightened in gilding, between moulded bands of Sulkowski-Ozier basketwork, the scrolling handles with moulded bearded mask terminals, the cover similarly decorated, 31.5cm wide, 27.5cm high, crossed swords mark in blue, impressed Dreher's mark for Andreas Schiefer (fine haircrack, repairs to finial and handle) (2)
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Literature:
U. Pietsch, Phantastische Welten. Malerei auf Meissener Porzellan und deutschen Fayencen von Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck 1714-1754 (2014), no. 63
Pietsch suggests that the scene on the tureen of a man being pulled in a wagon was taken from an original Chinese bowl which was in the collection of the Elector, now in the Dresden Porcelain Collections (see Pietsch, op. cit., pp. 75 and 77). Another similar tureen and cover is also illustrated in U. Pietsch, op. cit., no. 62.