An extremely rare Meissen porcelain circular butter box and cover, circa 1725
Live auction begins on:
June 24, 12:30 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 10,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
finely painted with quatrefoil landscape panels within underglaze-blue borders, embellished with iron-red scrollwork, alternating with vignettes of flowering plants, the box with moulded horizontal ribs picked out in iron-red, puce and gilt-dotted Böttger lustre, the cover similarly painted, with an underglaze-blue and gilt diaper border at the rim, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
Diameter 5 ⅝ in; 14,2 cm
An old Rhenish family collection, Lempertz, Cologne, 15 May 2015, lot 614;
Acquired at the above sale.
A particularly close example, painted with landscapes, similarly decorated with Böttger-lustre and underglaze-blue was in the Ludwig Darmstädter Collection, Berlin, sold, Rudolph-Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 24-26 March, 1925, lot 106. A second, though differing by the use of painted flowers in the manner of J. E. Stadler, was in the Henle Collection, offered, Sotheby’s, London, 25 November 1997, lot 119. Two butter boxes of the form were included in the so-called ‘Christie Miller’ service produced some years later in about 1740, sold at Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1970, lots 21 and 22.
