A Meissen chinoiserie two-handled circular bowl and cover, circa 1728
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November 10, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen chinoiserie two-handled circular bowl and cover, circa 1728
possibly painted by J.G. Höroldt, the cover perhaps by P.E. Schindler with figures and attendants at various pursuits, within quatrefoil gilt-scroll cartouches enclosing Böttger-lustre sections above iron-red scrolls, the cover gilt with flowers, the bowl with stylised flowers in a version of the Kakiemon palette, blue crossed swords mark to bowl
19cm., 7½ in. wide
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Two slightly later tureens, covers and stands of similar form and decortion, formerly in the Margerete and Franz Oppenheimer and the Dr Fritz Mannheimer collections are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. See den Blaauwen, A.L., Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 146-7, cat. no. 83 where the author lists related pieces in German collections. For another similar bowl, cover and stand from the McGeough Bond Collection housed in The Argory, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, see Fergusson, P.F., Ceramics, 400 Years of Collecting in 100 Masterpieces, London, 2016, pp. 64-5 where the author discusses the use of broth bowls or `Boullion Copgen` as part of the paraphernalia associated with courtly practice during the levee. For a similar bowl and cover in the Porzellansammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, museum no. P.E. 1504, see Cassidy-Geiger, M. (ed.), Fragile Diplomacy, Meissen Porcelain for European Courts ca. 1710-1763, New York, 2007, p. 144, fig. 7-5b.
