A PAIR OF MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED TUREENS AND COVERS with high sides, shallow domed covers and circular spreading feet, painted by Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, each with an exotic bird perched on a green and Böttger lustre rock among extensive unusual flowering chrysanthemum and peony, and blue and yellow flowers, the Frauenköpfe handles with gilt, iron-red and puce scrolling torsos, black hair and gilt tiaras, the spreading feet with a broad band of Böttger lustre and gilt foliage, the covers with two trailing branches of chrysanthemum and peony about scrolling finials with Frauenköpfe wearing black tripartite wigs (one finial broken from cover and restored, the other finial with a minute chip, the bases of the handles ground), blue crossed swords marks, circa 1725

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED TUREENS AND COVERS with high sides, shallow domed covers and circular spreading feet, painted by Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, each with an exotic bird perched on a green and Böttger lustre rock among extensive unusual flowering chrysanthemum and peony, and blue and yellow flowers, the Frauenköpfe handles with gilt, iron-red and puce scrolling torsos, black hair and gilt tiaras, the spreading feet with a broad band of Böttger lustre and gilt foliage, the covers with two trailing branches of chrysanthemum and peony about scrolling finials with Frauenköpfe wearing black tripartite wigs (one finial broken from cover and restored, the other finial with a minute chip, the bases of the handles ground), blue crossed swords marks, circa 1725
23cm. high (2)

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Cf. a tureen with similar handles, painted by the same hand, sold in these Rooms, 6 October 1986, lot 201; another blue and white tureen of similar shape but with a seated chinaman finial, from the Dr. Ernst Schneider collection, illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, no. 525; however although Frauenköpfe handles are known on other pieces, Frauenköpfe finials are not apparently recorded on any other Meissen tureens of this shape, perhaps they were inspired by the sphinx supports from clock cases modelled by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner

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