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A MEISSEN AUGUSTUS REX VASE AND COVER
Lot 60ANOTHER PROPERTY

A MEISSEN AUGUSTUS REX VASE AND COVER

CIRCA 1730, BLUE AR MARK, INCISED K TO FOOTRIM

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A MEISSEN AUGUSTUS REX VASE AND COVER
CIRCA 1730, BLUE AR MARK, INCISED K TO FOOTRIM
Painted and gilt in the Kakiemon style with a crane and another exotic bird standing in shallow purple-shaded waters, another bird in flight above, beside flowering peony, prunus and chrysanthemum issuing from rockwork, the domed cover with a flowering branch and a richly gilt finial, within gilt-line rims (restoration to neck, rim of cover and finial, retouched flaking to foot)
17 ¼ in. (43.8 cm.) high

The Property of a Gentleman, sale; Christies, London, 23 May 1967, lot 25.

Note du spécialiste

A garniture of seven vases with similar decoration in the Ernst Schneider Collection at Schloss Lustheim, including a central vase of the same form as that of the present lot, is illustrated by Julia Weber, Meissener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Schloss Lustheim, Munich, 2012, Vol. II, p. 438, cat. no.456. A beaker vase painted in a similar hand with Kakiemon-style birds from a collection of 'Highly Important Early Continental Porcelain' was sold in these Rooms on 28 March 1977, lot 47, and a pair of vases, also similar in style, were anonymously by Sotheby's London on 27 March 1973, lot 39.