A MEISSEN HUNTING VASE AND COVER
A MEISSEN HUNTING VASE AND COVER

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN HUNTING VASE AND COVER
Circa 1740, blue crossed swords mark
Of baluster form with domed cover and baroque Frauenkopf scroll handles, the front painted in colors with a staghunt, the mounted hunters and their hounds galloping out of a wood at the left, the stag leaping free at the right, a hound at his heels, a church and mountain in the background, reserved within an elaborate ombrierte gilt cartouche of foliate scrolls and diaper-pattern panels centering a basket of flowers at the top and a scallop shell at the bottom, grotesque masks in profile at each side, the shoulder and foot similarly gilt with diaper-pattern lappets and foliate scrolls, the domed cover with a similar cartopuche and with a hunter and three hounds on a similarly gilt bracket
15¼in. (38.8cm.) high
來源
Anon. sale; Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, 6 June 1973, lot 6
出版
Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Antique Porcelain in Color, Meissen, New York, 1971, color plate p. 71
Robert E. Röntgen, The Book of Meissen, 1984, plate 129
拍場告示
Please note that the estimate should read $20,000-30,000.

Additional Provenance: The Property of a European Collector; Christie's, London, 24 March 1969, Lot 75 (2362,10 pounds sterling)

拍品專文

See Handt and Rakebrandt, Meissener Porzellan des 18.Jahrhunderts, pl. 41 for the pendant to this vase, still in the collections at Dresden