Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 87
A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted cylindrical tankard, circa 1730
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £8,750 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted cylindrical tankard, circa 1730
Painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a group of figures around a table with a hare in the foreground and ships in a harbour in the distance, within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with purple and iron-red foliate scrollwork and tiny chinoiserie figures at the sides, flanked by large flowering branches of indianische Blumen, with similar flowers to the handle, a gilt scrollwork border to the rim, the silver-gilt cover with a shell thumbpiece, by Peter Mouritts, Amsterdam, 1749, 19.5cm high (haircrack to handle)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 12 May 1959, lot 112;
Private Collection, UK (acquired in the above sale)
