Lot Essay
A boudalou with very similar decoration was sold in these Rooms on 17th October 1977, lot 20.
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CIRCA 1728
Details
A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE BOURDALOU
CIRCA 1728
Painted by J.G. Höroldt, the exterior with two vignettes, one with an Oriental observing ladies bathing in a river by a pavilion, the other with an amorous scene of lovers embracing on a canopied bed discreetly observed by two Orientals, each within elongated quatrefoil brown line and gilt cartouches with gilt scrolls and Böttger-lustre panels edged with puce and red scrolls, the ends with branches of indianische Blumen and two birds near the handle, the gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk border below the rim extending onto the handle and suspending another flowering branch, the interior with a little black devil (?) washing an Oriental lady's feet, within a similar cartouche flanked by two later flower-sprays (one disguising crack) below a broad Laub-und-Bandelwerk border with pendant husks at intervals, gilt band rim (interior with extensive wear to rim, husks and cartouche, wear to upper part of handle, areas of rim and footrim, crack from rim to base near handle with two minute associated losses on interior, exterior with very slight minor wear)
8 7/8 in. (22.4 cm.) long
CIRCA 1728
Painted by J.G. Höroldt, the exterior with two vignettes, one with an Oriental observing ladies bathing in a river by a pavilion, the other with an amorous scene of lovers embracing on a canopied bed discreetly observed by two Orientals, each within elongated quatrefoil brown line and gilt cartouches with gilt scrolls and Böttger-lustre panels edged with puce and red scrolls, the ends with branches of indianische Blumen and two birds near the handle, the gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk border below the rim extending onto the handle and suspending another flowering branch, the interior with a little black devil (?) washing an Oriental lady's feet, within a similar cartouche flanked by two later flower-sprays (one disguising crack) below a broad Laub-und-Bandelwerk border with pendant husks at intervals, gilt band rim (interior with extensive wear to rim, husks and cartouche, wear to upper part of handle, areas of rim and footrim, crack from rim to base near handle with two minute associated losses on interior, exterior with very slight minor wear)
8 7/8 in. (22.4 cm.) long
Provenance
Franz and Margarete Oppenheimer Collection, Berlin
Dr Fritz Mannheimer Collection (by whom it was purchased in 1936).
Dr Fritz Mannheimer Collection (by whom it was purchased in 1936).
Literature
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer, Meissener Porzellan (1927), no. 163, pls. 70 and 71.
Exhibited
Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.