Gold Boxes, Silver and Ceramics
Gold Boxes, Silver and Ceramics
A Meissen chinoiserie cream-pot and cover, Circa 1728
Auction Closed
November 10, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen chinoiserie cream-pot and cover
Circa 1728
of squat form, supported by three lion-paw feet, with scroll-moulded handle, everted rim and slightly domed cover, painted and lustred with three cartouches of figures among furniture, within gilt scroll and Böttger-lustre panels, the cover with three similar lesser cartouches, gilder's mark 10. to cover and .. to pot,
10cm., 3⅞in. high
(2)
The cartouches on the present cream pot have, in some cases been freely adapted from related figures in the Schulz-Codex, the figure beside a low table holding a pipe to the front of the cream pot is adapted from sheet 3 and the mother and child with a youth from a scene on sheet 8 (see illustration).