Live Auction 10750The John Shearer Collection of Important Meissen, Vincennes and Sevres
A PAIR OF MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED BEAKERS AND SAUCERS
Lot 39

A PAIR OF MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED BEAKERS AND SAUCERS

CIRCA 1728-30, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, GILDER'S P. FOR NOAH ERNST PETZOLD, DREHER'S TWO DOTS MARK TO FOOTRIM OF ONE SAUCER

Closed25 November 2014

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED BEAKERS AND SAUCERS
CIRCA 1728-30, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, GILDER'S P. FOR NOAH ERNST PETZOLD, DREHER'S TWO DOTS MARK TO FOOTRIM OF ONE SAUCER
The first beaker painted with a riverside encampment at night, the reverse with merchants by a river, the saucer with two figures walking in a hilly landscape, the second beaker painted with a pastoral landscape with ruins, the reverse with a Turkish figure on horseback on a quayside, the saucer with figures before classical ruins at sunset, within gilt quatrefoil cartouches edged with scrolls and issuing iron-red and purple foliate scrolls, the reverse of the saucers with three sprays of indianische Blumen, within Gitterwerk borders (very slight wear to gilding)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 27 April 1984, lot 20.

Specialist note

For a two-handled beaker and saucer from the same service painted with winter landscapes, see Ulrich Pietsch et al., Triumph of the Blue Swords, Dresden, 2010, p. 215, cat. no. 106.

Depictions of night scenes on Meissen porcelain are particularly unusual; a sugar-bowl decorated with a night scene was sold in these Rooms on 12 May 2010, lot 107.