CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1723-24

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN BEAKER AND COVER
CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1723-24
Painted with a continuous rocky river landscape with a waterfall, distant buildings and huntsmen, between moulded husks above and moulded up-turned acanthus leaves below issuing gilt scrolls, the footrim with an iron-red concentric curve ornament border, the cover moulded with radiating acanthus leaves enclosing indianische Blumen below an elaborate knop finial
6 7⁄8 in. (17.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

In his catalogue entry for a beaker of similar form, Abraham L. den Blaauwen notes that the form pre-dates the decoration, dating from the Böttger era, and that the factory were probably decorating older stock pieces. See den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 79, no. 40. Deborah Gage and Madeleine Marsh publish a beaker of this form as a tobacco jar, see Gage and Marsh, Tobacco Containers & Accessories, Their Place in Eighteenth Century European Social History, London, 1988, pp. 104-105, no. 17. For a bowl, cover and stand decorated with landscape scenes by the same hand as the present lot, see Maria L. Santangelo, A Princely Pursuit, The Malcolm D. Gutter Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain, Munich, 2018, pp. 122-125.

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