A Meissen porcelain Kakiemon circular tureen, cover, and a stand, circa 1740
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Lot closes
June 25, 11:31 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Current Bid
300 EUR
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Description
painted in Kakiemon style with the 'Three Friends of Winter', with flowering prunus, bamboo and pine branches issuing from banded hedges, a bird perched on one branch and another in flight, within the brown-edged rim, the finial modelled as a cockerel perched on a tree stump, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed numerals
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Diameter of stand 9 in; 22,7 cm
The tureen and cover: Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, London, 28 May 2009, lot 315;
Acquired at the above sale.
A near identical tureen of this form and decoration was in the collection of René Fribourg, New York, and sold in his sale, Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 15 October 1963, lot 467. Tureens of this form were included in the ‘Red Dragon Service’ for use at the Dresden court.
