A MEISSEN KAKIEMON TWO-HANDLED DOUBLE LIPPED LOBED SAUCEBOAT

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 46, GILT-ENRICHED PURPLE MONOGRAM HM

Details

A MEISSEN KAKIEMON TWO-HANDLED DOUBLE LIPPED LOBED SAUCEBOAT
Circa 1740, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 46, gilt-enriched purple monogram HM
Of lobed lozenge-shaped shell form with a female mask moulded below each spout, raised on four scroll feet, painted in the with rockwork and banded hedges issuing flowering branches, the interior with a phoenix
9in. (24.1cm.) long

Provenance

A Private European Collection, acquired prior to World War II (lot number 152)
By descent through the family

Literature

Otto von Falke, Die Kunstsammlung von Pannwitz, Band II, Munich, 1925, no. 269, unillus.

Sale room notice

This lot is mislabelled as lot 323 in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

Other pieces from the service to which the present sauceboat belongs, each with the same gilt purple monogram, are a plate in the Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg (Dieter Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Hamburg, 1999, Band I, no. 127, Band II, p. 680); two plates sold anonymously at Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1973, lot 149; two more sold Christie's, Geneva, 16 November 1992, lots 164 (from the estate of Dr. Dhil. Andreina Torre) and 300 (from an anonymous collection); and a terrine and cover, also from an anonymous collection, sold Sotheby's, London, 22/23 February 1988, lot 334.

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