A Rare Early Meissen Two-Handled Beaker, Circa 1715-17

Stanley Ungar Collection, Christie's New York, 23 April 1998, lot 9 (part)

Pieces from two similar services are recorded, though with diagonal gadrooning painted in lustre and gilt, unlike the vertical bands seen in the present lot. These services differ further from the present by the addition of lustred and enamelled foliate bands at the rims of the beakers. A two-handled beaker and saucer from one of these services is in the British Museum, London, mus. no. Franks.448, illustrated in Aileen Dawson, 'Documentary Continental Ceramics from the British Museum, exhibition catalogue', International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, London, 1985, no. 5. The saucer which the present lot was sold with at Christie's New York in 1998, likely belongs to that service. A beaker from the second service is in the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig, illustrated in Dieter Gielke, Meissener Porzellan des 18. und. 19. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, 2003, p. 36, Kat. Nr. 28.

An undecorated early Meissen beaker of the same form with its saucer is in the Warda Stevens Stout Collection, Memphis, illustrated in Christina H. Nelson and Letitia Roberts, A History of Eighteenth-Century German Porcelain, Seattle, 2013, cat. no. 5.