A pair of Meissen porcelain Dutch-decorated quadrangular sake bottles, the porcelain circa 1720, the decoration later
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3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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400 EUR
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Description
painted in Kakiemon style with panels of a yellow tiger curling beside bamboo and a tree stump, and a phoenix bird perched on a flowering branch beside a bamboo shoot and a prunus branch, with foliate scroll panels at the neck
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Height 7 ⅞ in; 20 cm
Anonymous sale, Metz, Heidelberg, 19 May 2018, lot 793;
Acquired at the above sale.
A near identical pair of early Meissen bottles, similarly shaped and decorated in Holland with a version of the ‘Yellow Tiger’ pattern was in the collection of Ilse Bischoff, sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc, New York, 24 February 1978, lot 92, who acquired them Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc. New York, and had formerly been in the collection of Miss J. Stanfield, Hampshire, England. A further pair was sold at Sotheby’s, London, 22 February 1966, lot 81.
