A Meissen Augustus Rex turquoise-ground baluster vase

CIRCA 1730, BLUE AR MARK

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A Meissen Augustus Rex turquoise-ground baluster vase
Circa 1730, blue AR mark
Painted with huntsmen with lances and hounds hunting wild boar among trees, before tents and a village in a mountainous landscape within a shaped black line and gilt band cartouche, above a similar smaller cartouche to the flared foot with a gentleman shooting ducks in a river landscape, the reverse painted in a Kakiemon palette with two birds perched on chrysanthemum and peony branches issuing from rockwork above a similar smaller cartouche with a flowering branch, flanked by four light-green-ground reserves painted with stylised leaves and flowerheads, the cylindrical neck with a gilt band of foliage scrolls and scattered indianische Blumen, gilt line rims (part of neck restuck and with associated restored rim chip, hairline crack to neck extending into the body and lower part and branched across the body, slight footrim chip, some discolouration to ground colour)
16¾in. (42.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. the yellow-ground beaker vases made for Schloss Hubertusburg from the Jörg Nelte Collection sold in these Rooms on the 12 October 1995, lot 70 and a pair of baluster vases from the same garniture in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, see Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel (1956), pl. 74, fig. 112, where she attributes the painting to J.G. Heintze.

As in the case of the Nelte collection vases, the graphic source for the scene on the present lot was almost certainly an engraving by Georg Christopher Steudler after J.E. Ridinger.

A garniture of three vases of similar type is illustrated by Karl Berling, Meissner Porzellan (1900), pl. XI.

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