CIRCA 1725

Details

A MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED ECUELLE AND COVER
Circa 1725
Each side painted with three landscapes, the large central scenes with buildings and trees on the banks of estuaries flanked by two further small oval vignettes enclosed by gilt lines, within shaped rectangular gilt cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels edged with gilt scrolls below a border of gilt interlocking scrolls and flowerheads, the angular ear-shaped handles of square section, the outer facets gilt with husks, the shallow domed cover similarly decorated with three principal river-landscapes flanked by small vignettes within similar cartouches and a similar border, the three branch finial richly gilt
4½in. (11.5cm.) high

Provenance

Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 20 May 1991, lot 161
Meissen Porcelain from a European Private Collection; Sotheby's, London, 17 June 1997, lot 28
With Heinz Reichert, Munich, July 1997

Lot Essay

For an écuelle of the same form, but with Augsburg gilt decoration, exhibited at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, see Hermann Jedding, 'Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz' Exhibition Catalogue (Hamburg 1982), p. 59, no. 32.

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