CIRCA 1740, THE COVER A LATER PORCELAIN REPLACEMENT

Details

A Meissen ewer and a cover associated with the Swan service
Circa 1740, the cover a later porcelain replacement
Modelled by J.J. Kändler as Cupid seated on the back of a swan, his bright-yellow drapery billowing behind him and forming the handle, the swan naturally modelled with finely incised plumage, black beak and legs, the spout moulded with waterweeds before the swan's breast, on a circular mound base applied with coloured flowers (restoration to swan's beak, Cupid's wings repaired and restoration to his right index finger and thumb and right ankle and foot, chip to edge of cover)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high (2)

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Cf. the example sold in these Rooms on 9 June 1986, lot 115.

For the model see Karl Berling, Festive Publication to commemorate the 200th Jubilee of the Oldest European China Factory Meissen (1910), p. 23, fig. 20.

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