CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND DREHER'S ··

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A MEISSEN YELLOW-GROUND CHINOISERIE BOUILLON-JUG
CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND DREHER'S ··
Of teabowl form, the ground reserved on each side with Chinoiserie vignettes painted by J.E. Stadler, with Orientals on terraces with flowering shrubs and stylised fences, each Oriental holding an elaborate fan, within shaped quatrefoil purple line cartouches, the white loop handle with iron-red husks flanking a flowerhead, the white triangular spout with two insects in flight, on a waisted white foot with a gilt band, the interior with a spray of indianische Blumen below a brown line rim (some minute flaking and wear to enamels, ground with three slight scratches on one side)
2¼ in. (5.6 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a similar example formerly in the Franz Oppenheimer Collection, and then the Dr. Fritz Mannheimer Collection, now in the Rijksmuseum, see Abraham L-den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, no. 214. A brown-ground example with its stand in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, is illustrated by D. Hoffmeister, Katalog Der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. II, no. 295.

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