Bonhams : A rare large Meissen vase and cover circa 1730-35

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Lot 47

A rare large Meissen vase and cover

circa 1730-35

Sold for £ 26,400 (US$ 32,597) inc. premium

Fine Meissen and other Continental Ceramics & Glass including the Luise Hofmann Collection

16 May 2007, 10:30 BST

London, New Bond Street

A rare large Meissen vase and cover

circa 1730-35
With a 'Seladon' ground, the vase of baluster shape with turned bands around the straight neck, the domed cover a pointed, gilded finial, the pale turquoise ground reserving quatrelobed panels brightly painted with fantastic birds, plants and insects, within cartouches of a gold scale pattern, the cover with further insect panels within a different gilded pattern, 46cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze blue (finial broken off and restored, small section of cover rim repaired) (2)

Footnotes

The rooms in the Japanese Palace in Dresden were each furnished in a different colour, with porcelain decorated to match the walls. One room on the upper floor was described as being of a pale turquoise or 'seladon' colour and this was furnished with Meissen porcelain.... 'Porcelains Seladon-Couleur mit weissen Feldern und mit schmalen goldenen Rändchen und mit wenig Malerei' (celadon colour with white reserves, narrow gold borders and sparse painting), see J L Sponsel, Kabinettstucke der Meissner Porzellan-Manuaktur von J J Kandler, p. 31.

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