Lot 214
214
DUTCH PORCELAIN
A WEESP PORCELAIN TWOHANDLED QUADRUPOD OVAL TUREEN, after a Louis XV silverwork example, gilt and painted in colours, the shaped bulging body applied with rocaille scrolls and four cartouches in relief containing flowerbouquets alternating with sprays, the waisted rim painted with a green band of scales to the edge, the inside scattered with green branches, the handles and feet modelled as scrolls (one handle with hairline crack, a part of the rim repaired), marked with underglaze blue double crossed swords with dotted hilts and three dots (1759-1771) 32 cm wide, 17 cm high

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A WEESP PORCELAIN TWOHANDLED QUADRUPOD OVAL TUREEN, after a Louis XV silverwork example, gilt and painted in colours, the shaped bulging body applied with rocaille scrolls and four cartouches in relief containing flowerbouquets alternating with sprays, the waisted rim painted with a green band of scales to the edge, the inside scattered with green branches, the handles and feet modelled as scrolls (one handle with hairline crack, a part of the rim repaired), marked with underglaze blue double crossed swords with dotted hilts and three dots (1759-1771) 32 cm wide, 17 cm high

Lot Essay

cf. - W.J. Rust, 'Weesper porselein in het museum te Weesp' Mededelingenblad vrienden van de nederlandse ceramiek nr. 38, 1965, p. 8 (whereby Rust thinks of Nicolas Gauron as a modeller)
- W.J. Rust, Nederlands porselein, ill. 3, for a tureen of similar form in the Gemeentemuseum, Weesp
- Elka Schrijver, Hollands porselein, ill. 26 for another tureen of similar form in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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