Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture

Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 177. AN EARLY MEISSEN PORCELAIN WHITE SAKE BOTTLE CIRCA 1715-20.

AN EARLY MEISSEN PORCELAIN WHITE SAKE BOTTLE CIRCA 1715-20

Auction Closed

April 16, 08:57 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

THE COLLECTION OF MELINDA AND PAUL SULLIVAN


AN EARLY MEISSEN PORCELAIN WHITE SAKE BOTTLE

CIRCA 1715-20


of square-section with a bulbous body applied in low relief with alternating satyr masks and small bouquets of flowers, on a stepped square foot, the slender neck with a band of husks

height 7⅝ in.

19.4 cm

Pairs of bottles of this form were in the sales from the Johanneum in Dresden, Rudolph Lepke's, Berlin, October 12-14, 1920, lots 119 and 120. A pair with traces of cold decoration remain in the State Collection in the Zwinger, Dresden, inv. nos. PE 2872 and PE2873 a, b, and is illustrated in Ulrich Pietsch and Claudia Banz (ed.), Triumph of the Crossed Swords, Dresden2010, p. 171, cat. no. 15. Another is in the Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 1974.356.499.