A pair of Meissen porcelain Kakiemon quadrangular sake bottles, circa 1730-35
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Lot closes
June 25, 11:38 AM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
Current Bid
500 EUR
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Description
painted in a Kakiemon style enriched in gilding, with panels of tall flowering branches issuing from banded hedges, alternating with flowering branches issuing from blue rockwork, with small sprigs and insects above, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, dreher’s mark of a letter M to one, MB monogram to other
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Height 8 ¼ in; 21 cm
Property from a British Private Collection, assembled in the 1950s and 1960s, by repute,
Until sold, Anonymous sale, Bonhams, London, 14 June 2017, lot 162;
Anonymous sale, Metz, Heidelberg, 19 May 2018, lot 577;
Acquired at the above sale.
A further pair, bearing the same MB dreher’s mark, from the Estate of Mrs Charles Allen Junior was sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 1 November 1997, lot 39. Another bottle, from the Put Collection, was sold at Sotheby’s, London, 24 November 1998, lot 23, having previously appeared at Christie’s, London, 6 February 1978, lot 199.
