Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 55

A MEISSEN CIRCULAR TUREEN AND COVER

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 20, THE DECORATION MOST PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY, LATER INCISED K.H.C. W. 114. MARK

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 4,750

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A MEISSEN CIRCULAR TUREEN AND COVER
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 20, THE DECORATION MOST PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY, LATER INCISED K.H.C. W. 114. MARK
Of slightly flared cylindrical form, painted in the manner of A.F. von Löwenfinck after Petrus Schenk with Orientals, dogs and fabulous animals in continuous landscapes with pagodas among rockwork and trees and flowering plants, the domed cover with an artichoke finial and gilt line rim (scratching to tureen, slight scratching to cover and rubbing to rim and finial)
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 20th May 1958, lot 145
Kathy Gillmeister Collection, California, no. G36

Specialist note

The form is derived from a Chinese original, see John Ayers et al., Porcelain for Palaces, British Museum Exhibition Catalogue (London, 1990), p. 236, no. 256. For a Meissen box and cover possibly by the same hand as the same lot, see Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, 2000), pp. 292-293, no. 212, where he refers to the present example. See also the tankard on pp. 272-273, no. 199, which is also decorated in a very similar style to the present example.