Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 71
Two Dutch-decorated Meissen milk jugs and covers, the porcelain circa 1720, the decoration circa 1730
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,750 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Two Dutch-decorated Meissen milk jugs and covers, the porcelain circa 1720, the decoration circa 1730
Decorated after a Chinese original with a dense ground of prunus flowerheads and three shaped cartouches edged in blue enclosing chinoiserie landscapes and a chinoiserie figure respectively, the covers with similar decoration and two cartouches, 13cm high, paper collector's labels to the base (rubbing to the gilding, minute flat chips to spout) (2)
Footnotes
This lot is sold for the benefit of the Giles Waterfield Memorial Scholarship at the Attingham Trust.
Similar Dutch-decorated milk jugs are in the Stout Collection (C.H. Nelson/L. Roberts, A History of Eighteenth-Century German Porcelain (2013), no. 16) and in the Wark Collection (U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain: The Wark Collection (2011), no. 647, where the decoration is attributed to Gerrit van der Kade, who decorated Meissen and East Asian porcelain in Chinese style in Amsterdam). The Wark Collection includes a teapot and cover decorated in the same style (Pietsch, no. 646).
