A Meissen porcelain famille-verte two-handled circular écuelle, cover and stand, circa 1739-40
No reserve
Live auction begins on:
June 24, 12:30 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
of circular form with pierced lappet-shaped handles, painted with a bird perched in flowering plants, with cell-pattern borders reserved with panels of butterflies within a gilt-line rim, the stand similarly decorated within a gilt-line rim, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, the stand with impressed numeral 21
Width of stand 10 ¼ in; 26 cm
Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 9 November 1987, lot 115;
Christie’s, London, 17 November 2009, lot 45;
Acquired at the above sale.
Examples of Meissen porcelain in this rare pattern were represented in several prominent European porcelain collections prior to the Second World War: A large dish (38.5 cm diam.) was in the Friedrich Girtanner Collection, Zürich, sold, Rudolph-Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 9 December 1926, lot 40; and a smaller dish (24.5 cm diam.) was in the Ludwig Darmstädter Collection, Berlin, sold, in the same rooms, 24-25 March 1925, lot 103. Most recently a large dish (34.7 cm diam.) was in the Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke Collection, Baltimore, sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 26 September 1989, lot 10.
