A Meissen porcelain two-handled écuelle, cover and stand, circa 1730
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June 24, 12:30 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 10,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
painted with large scenes of chinoiserie figures at various pursuits, within iron-red, puce and gilt scroll-edged quatrefoil cartouches, edged in black, separated by sprays of indianische Blumen, the écuelle affixed with two gilt-edged angular handles, and the cover with a gilt branch handle, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 16. to all pieces
Diameter of stand 7 ⅞ in; 20,2cm
Edmond de Rothschild Collection, his (anonymous) sale, Christie's London, 17 October 1977, lot 22;
Anonymous sale, Neumeister, Munich, 18 September 2013, lot 32;
Acquired at the above sale.
Ulrich Pietsch, Höroldt and Kaendler: Two Outstanding Artists of the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory Competing against each Other on Their Way to the Pinnacle of Perfection’, in Hans Ottomeyer and Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo, From Invention to Perfection, Masterpieces of Eighteenth-Century Decorative Art, Munich, 2016, p. 223, fig. 60.
When the present lot sold at Christie’s in 1977, a further two-handled écuelle, cover and stand, was included as the following lot (lot 23) unillustrated but catalogued as the companion écuelle, and bearing the same gilt numeral.
