Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 120

A MEISSEN SLOP-BOWL FROM A JAGD SERVICE

CIRCA 1755, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 7., PRESSNUMMER 3

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 4,750

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A MEISSEN SLOP-BOWL FROM A JAGD SERVICE
CIRCA 1755, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 7., PRESSNUMMER 3
One side painted with two negroes attacking an elephant in a landscape with palm trees, the other with two hounds attacking a stag crossing a river in a rocky landscape with trees, above brown and gilt foliage-scroll half-cartouches entwined with flowers, the interior with a flower-spray, gilt line rim
6 5/8 in. (17 cm.) diam.

Anonymous sale, Galerie Jürg Stuker, Berne, April 1972, lot 102
A Distinguished Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain, sale Christie's, London, 8th July 2002, lot 124

Specialist note

The stag hunt scene is derived Johann Elias Ridinger's engraving 'Parforcejagd auf den Hirsch'. A detail of the scene and the corresponding print are illustrated on p. 20 (the engraving is illustrated by courtesy of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden. Kupferstich-Kabinett, Inv.-Nr. A 11800 in A 256,2).