Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
A MEISSEN HAUSMALER LARGE HEXAGONAL TEA CANISTER AND A COVER CIRCA 1720-30
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October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 4,000 USD
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A MEISSEN HAUSMALER LARGE HEXAGONAL TEA CANISTER AND A COVER CIRCA 1720-30
decorated in Augsburg in gilding, the sides molded in low relief with alternating gilt-ribbed panels of either a bird perched upon a flowering branch or a bird in flight near a flowering branch, the cover with a similar molded flowering branch.
Height: 4⅞ in.
12.3 cm
Brunn Rasmussen, Copenhagen, November 28, 2002, lot 554
Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 294, p. 598, illus.
The form is taken from Chinese Yixing stoneware. An example of this large sized form in Böttger stoneware and a further porcelain example with similar gilding are in the Hans C. Syz Collection at the Smithsonian Institution, illustrated in Hans Syz, et. al, Catalogue of The Hans Syz Collection, Vol I, Meissen Porcelain and Hausmalerei, Washington D.C. 1979, pp. 18-19, 54-55, nos. 3, 26. Lacquered and gilt examples of the form were recorded in the inventory of Augustus the Strong's collection in 1721, grouped under number 39 of section 10, 'Schwartz Porcelain', for which see Ingelore Menzhausen, Böttgersteinzeug, Böttgerporzellan aus der Dresdener Porzellansammlung, Dresden, 1969, p. 60. A white example was in the Wolfgang von Dallwitz Collection, illustrated in Ernst Zimmermann, Die Erfindung und Frühzeit des Meißner Porzellans. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Keramik, Berlin, 1908, p. 216, abb. 83.