Live Auction 20036Two Private Collections of European Ceramics, Gold Boxes and Silver
A SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN CHINOISERIE TANKARD AND COVER
Lot 108

A SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN CHINOISERIE TANKARD AND COVER

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION EITHER MEISSEN CIRCA 1725 OR BAYREUTH, CIRCA 1737-50, THE UPPER AND LOWER MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY, THE THUMBPIECE LATER

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A SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN CHINOISERIE TANKARD AND COVER
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION EITHER MEISSEN CIRCA 1725 OR BAYREUTH, CIRCA 1737-50, THE UPPER AND LOWER MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY, THE THUMBPIECE LATER
Decorated in the style associated with Danhöffer with chinoiserie figures amongst flowering shrubs enriched in gilding, the domed cover inset with coin dated 1667, the thumbpiece with a shell and a mask, the foot with a foliate mount, the underside cut with an indistinct inscription
8 1⁄8 in. (20.7 cm.) high overall

Specialist note


R.G. Vater Collection no. 587 (paper collection label to the interior).

It still remains unclear as to whether decoration of this type was executed independently of the factory at Bayreuth by Johann Philipp Danhöffer (1712-90), or by Christian Daniel Busch, another painter at Bayreuth, as suggested by Siegfried Ducret, 'Johann Philipp Danhoffer oder Christian Daniel Busch?' in Keramos, No. 17, 1962, pp. 19-26. For a further discussion, see Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Europäisches Porzellan, Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Köln, Vol. VI, pp. 89-93. Also see H. Syz, J.J. Miller and R. Rückert, Catalogue of The Hans Syz Collection, Washington, D.C., 1979, pp. 548-549 for a chinoiserie tankard painted with similar elongated figures.