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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN CHINOISERIE FIGURAL INCENSE-BURNER
Lot 100

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN CHINOISERIE FIGURAL INCENSE-BURNER

CIRCA 1735-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Closed16 December 2021

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GBP 8,750

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN CHINOISERIE FIGURAL INCENSE-BURNER
CIRCA 1735-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Modelled by J.F. Eberlein as a seated chinoiserie figure, with pierced holes to his ears and mouth, seated on a green cushion and wearing a flowered robe, feeding an open mouthed monkey on his right knee
6 1⁄4 in. (16 cm.) high

Specialist note


Another example from the Hasse Collection was sold by Bonhams, London, on the 8 October 2014, lot 22.

See Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, London, 1972, Vol. I, p. 76, where she notes that the Taxa price list from 1735 states: 'Ein Pagott mit einem Affen von Thon bossiert' (a pagoda with a monkey modelled in clay).