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Rare gobelet à deux anses en porcelaine de Meissen, vers 1722
A rare Meissen two-handled beaker, circa 1722
A rare Meissen two-handled beaker, circa 1722
30 – 31 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche€5,500 - €6,500
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Rare gobelet à deux anses en porcelaine de Meissen, vers 1722
A rare Meissen two-handled beaker, circa 1722
A rare Meissen two-handled beaker, circa 1722
Each side painted with an Italian Comedy figure depicting Harlequin in a landscape within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche filled with Böttger lustre end edged with iron-red foliate scrollwork, gilt band inside rum, ear-shaped handles, 7.6cm high
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Provenance
Private Collection, Rhineland, sold at Lempertz Cologne, 22 May 1997;
Giovanni and Gabriella Barilla Collection, Geneva, sold at Sotheby's London, 14 March 2012, lot 111
Literature
Wildtraut, I./Buchen, H., "Das Commedia dell'Arte Service," in Keramos 156 (1997): no. 8, ills. 1 and 7;
Mauri, Luigi, Fragili Emozioni: Porcellane europee nel gusto di un collezionista lombardo, Milan, 2013, pp. 96-99, cat. 41
This beaker belongs to one of several tea and chocolate services that were ordered in 1722 following the staging in Dresden for Mardi Gras of a Caroussel Comique - an elaborate outdoor pageant with a commedia dell'Arte theme - in February. Many of the depictions on these Meissen services, including the present beaker, are based on engravings by Petrus Schenck after earlier engravings by Jean Mariette (M. Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, 2001, pp. 172f.). One side of the present beaker is after a Mariette engraving depicting Evariste Gherardi as Harlequin (see above Literature, ill.2).
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