Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 13

A MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED BOWL AND A COVER

CIRCA 1723

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 4,375

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A MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED BOWL AND A COVER
CIRCA 1723
With square section angular handles, each side painted with river landscapes with distant fortresses, one scene with a mill, within gilt quatrefoil Böttger-lustre panelled gilt and iron-red scroll cartouches, the cover with indianische Blumen about a triple branch finial within a gilt interlocking C-scroll border (underside of rim of cover with minute chipping to rim)
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) high (2)

William W. Blackburn Collection
Kathy Gillmeister Collection, California, no. G46

Specialist note

Two similar bowls and covers are in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 41, no. 130, and p. 72, where he refers to the present lot, and pl. 42, no. 131. A similar example from the Property of a European Nobleman was sold by Sotheby's, London, on 29th June 1982, lot 102.