Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 84
A Meissen ewer and basin, circa 1745
7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Meissen ewer and basin, circa 1745
Both moulded with a basketwork ground, the helmet-shaped ewer applied with a scroll handle and moulded with shell-shaped and foliate base on a flared foot, the rims with gilt dash borders, reserved with gilt- and brown-edged quatrelobe panels painted with elegant figures in river landscape scenes, the basin: 29.8cm long; the ewer: 19.8cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed numeral 25 to basin (tiny chips to ewer footrim) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Property of a Lady, Christie's London, 29th November 1973, lot 126
A similar ewer and basin was in the Baron von Born Collection, Budapest, sold by Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 4 December 1929, lot 166.
