Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 48
A Meissen circular tureen and cover, circa 1730
7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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Sebastian Kuhn
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Meissen circular tureen and cover, circa 1730
Painted in Kakiemon style with a long-tailed bird perched on flowering chrysanthemum branches issuing from banded hedges, surrounded by further flowering branches, another bird in flight on the reverse, the cover similarly decorated and applied with a pinecone finial, 20cm high, crossed swords mark in blue enamel (some crazing to glaze) (2)
Footnotes
Another example of the same shape and decoration, but with Japanese Palace inventory number N=17-/W, is in the Malcolm D. Gutter Collection (see M. Santangelo, A Princely Pursuit (2018), cat. no.87, plate 64). In the 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace six tureens of this type were recorded: 'Sechs Stück detto (Terrinen mit platten Deckel, mit Vögeln und kleinen Blümgen gemahlt), mit einem blätterichten Knopf, 8. Zoll hoch, 9 3/4. Zoll in Diam' [six pieces of the same (tureens with flat-topped covers, painted with birds and small flowers), with a leafy finial, 8 zoll high, 9 3/4 zoll in diameter] (quoted in Claus Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in Keramos 153 (July 1996), p.72). Two chrysanthemum-shaped bowls in the Dr. Ernst Schneider collection have the same type of Kakiemon decoration (see J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), pp. 231f, no. 214).
