Lot Essay
Cf. the painting on the beaker and saucer, in the British Museum, inscribed Lauche fecit, Dresden, see Gustav E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence-und Porzellan-Hausmaler, pl. 24
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A Meissen hausmalerei armorial chinoiserie tea-caddy and cover
CIRCA 1728
Details
A Meissen hausmalerei armorial chinoiserie tea-caddy and cover
Circa 1728
Painted in colours with an impaled coat-of-arms within a gilt baroque scroll cartouche beneath a helmet and coloured mantling, the reverse with a large Chinoiserie scene by Philipp Emmanuel Schindler with six figures around a tall table with jardinières of flowers, the shoulder and cover with gilt lappet borders, blue enamel crossed swords mark
4½in. (11.5cm.) high
Circa 1728
Painted in colours with an impaled coat-of-arms within a gilt baroque scroll cartouche beneath a helmet and coloured mantling, the reverse with a large Chinoiserie scene by Philipp Emmanuel Schindler with six figures around a tall table with jardinières of flowers, the shoulder and cover with gilt lappet borders, blue enamel crossed swords mark
4½in. (11.5cm.) high
Provenance
Anon. sale Christie's, 2 July 1984, lot 215