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A PAIR OF MEISSEN KAKIEMON FLARED BEAKER-VASES
Lot 29PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF AXEL GUTTMANN, SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS

A PAIR OF MEISSEN KAKIEMON FLARED BEAKER-VASES

CIRCA 1725, BLUE KITE MARKS

Closed31 March 2008

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN KAKIEMON FLARED BEAKER-VASES
CIRCA 1725, BLUE KITE MARKS
Each with a flared upper part, swelling central section and slightly flared lower part, painted by J.E. Stadler, each section with a continuous band of flowering plants issuing from rockwork, striped fences and birds and insects in flight divided by underglaze blue lines, the flared rims with an underglaze blue band of flowerheads and foliage enriched in gilding (one with restored crack to rim and minute chip to underside)
12 3/8 in. (31.3 cm.) high (2)

With J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York, January 1952 ($400)
Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke Collection, sale Sotheby's New York, 26th September 1989, lot 16.

Specialist note

Similar vases from the Royal Collection, Dresden, were sold by Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, on 7th October 1919, lot 219 (pl. 14). For a pair of vases of the same form with the same underglaze blue border in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, see Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, 2000), pp. 40-41, no. 15. For another pair of very similar form painted by Stadler, also in the Rijksmuseum, see A. Den Blaauwen, ibid, p. 71, no. 35.