A Meissen porcelain 'Schmetterlings'-pattern two-handled oval butter box and cover, circa 1735
Estimate
800 - 1,200 EUR
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Description
the cover painted with two large butterflies, each perched on a flowering branch, surmounted with a puce-flower bud knop, brown-edged rim, the base affixed with two small scroll handles, painted with tied bouquets of flowers and small sprigs, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
Width across handles 14.5 cm; 5 ¾ in
Cambi, Genoa, 19 December 2017, lot 121;
Acquired at the above sale.
See Julia Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbilden, Band II, Munich, 2013, pp. 344-345, for a discussion of this pattern at Meissen, a combination of two East Asian motifs, and introduced around 1730 by order of Count von Hoym and the French merchant Lemaire.
