A MEISSEN AMPHORA TWO-HANDLED OVIFORM VASE AND COVER painted with a peasant family in a landscape, a bouquet of garden flowers and scattered insects, the two strapwork and foliage scroll handles enriched in puce and turquoise and with frauenköpf finials, the domed cover with a mother and child in a landscape and a spray of flowers forming the finial (one flower and stalk on the cover a restored replacement, minor chips to flowers and leaves, slight chips to footrim, the mark erased), dreher's quartered circle, circa 1740

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A MEISSEN AMPHORA TWO-HANDLED OVIFORM VASE AND COVER painted with a peasant family in a landscape, a bouquet of garden flowers and scattered insects, the two strapwork and foliage scroll handles enriched in puce and turquoise and with frauenköpf finials, the domed cover with a mother and child in a landscape and a spray of flowers forming the finial (one flower and stalk on the cover a restored replacement, minor chips to flowers and leaves, slight chips to footrim, the mark erased), dreher's quartered circle, circa 1740
37cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Meissen Porcelain, p. 71 for a vase of similar form, the companion of which is in the Zwinger, Dresden

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