CIRCA 1724-25

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A MEISSEN FLARED CYLINDRICAL CHINOISERIE BEAKER
CIRCA 1724-25
Each side painted with Orientals on terraces by smoking vessels and vases within circular gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk cartouches surmounted by vessels and pendant tasselled drapery, the sides with further Orientals, below moulded pendant red and purple husks, the lower part moulded with red and Böttger-lustre acanthus leaves, above a gilt band border (base with crack and small filled hole, gilt bands at rims regilt, some wear to cartouches, footrim ground)
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 2nd October 1978, lot 174
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 16th-17th October 1989, lot 252

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Lot Essay

For two beakers of similar form in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, see Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, 2000), pp. 79-81, nos. 40-41. Contemporary work reports suggest that the form of this beaker was produced between 1724 and 1728, and not from the Böttger period as traditionally thought (see Claus Bolz, 'Die wöchentlichen Berichte über die Tätigkeit der Meissner Dreher und Former vom 6. Juni 1722 bis 31. Dezember 1728', Keramos, No. 178 2002, October 2002, p. 23). (The 1978 catalogue shows the beaker with a mount, which is absent in the 1989 Sotheby's catalogue illustration).

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