Two rare Meissen porcelain oil or vinegar ewers and covers, circa 1735
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Description
painted, in famille-verte style, with similar patterns of either one bird or two birds perched in flowering branches, the versos with either an insect or cranes with smaller sprigs, moulded with a scroll-edged spout and double-scroll handle edged in dark puce and gilding, the covers painted with small flower sprigs and surmounted with artichoke finial, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised II to inside edge of footrims
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Height 7 ⅞ in; 20 cm
Anonymous sale, Cambi, Genoa, 19 December 2017, lots 119 and 122;
Acquired at the above sale.
A spouted ewer and cover decorated in this pattern is preserved in the Dr. Schneider Collection at Schloss Lustheim (inv. no. ES 21 ab), illustrated by Rainer Rückert and Johann Willsberger in Meissen, Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Zurich, 1978, cat. no. 57, and dust jacket. The same piece is discussed and illustrated by Julia Weber in Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Schloss Lustheim, Band II, Munich, p. 360, cat. no. 363, where she examines the origins of the pattern on Meissen porcelain and reproduces related Chinese famille-verte dishes from the collection of Augustus the Strong, still preserved in the Porzellansammlung Dresden (pp. 356–365). A further spouted ewer with this decoration was offered at Sotheby’s, London, 15 June 1994, lot 46.
