Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 56

A MEISSEN FAMILLE-VERTE QUATREFOIL TUREEN STAND

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 27

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 1,125

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A MEISSEN FAMILLE-VERTE QUATREFOIL TUREEN STAND
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 27
Painted with the Vogelbaum pattern, with three birds on a prunus and camellia branch and with scattered insects, within a Sulkowski ozier-moulded border with indianische Blumen (some very slight wear)
13 3/8 in. (24 cm.) wide

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 19th October 1994, lot 234

Specialist note

The design was probably derived from drawings of birds perched on flowering branches attributed to J.G. Höroldt, see the Schulz Codex, Vol. I., pls. XV and XVI, figs. 158-179.