Christie’s roundel
Lot 11

A MEISSEN WHITE EWER

CIRCA 1720-25, DREHER'S MARK TO FOOTRIM

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 5,000

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A MEISSEN WHITE EWER
CIRCA 1720-25, DREHER'S MARK TO FOOTRIM
The body of inverted helmet shape with a flared lip and moulded scroll handle, with moulded flowering prunus branches, the body with two raised horizontal bands on a domed foot (chipping to upper rim, warped in firing)
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high

Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 13th November 1989, lot 107

Specialist note

A similar example was sold by Sotheby's London on 14th February 1978, lot 172. A Böttger white porcelain ewer of similar form, but with a Frauenkopf handle, is illustrated by Willi Goder et al., Johann Friedrich Böttger (Leipzig, 1982), pls. 191-192, where it notes that the form was designed by the Court Silversmith Johann Jacob Irminger.