A MEISSEN (AUGUSTUS REX) GLOBULAR BOTTLE-VASE perhaps painted by Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, with a narrow cylindrical neck, painted with Oriental flowers including peony and chrysanthemum, the neck with half-flowerheads on a seeded turquoise band between iron-red lines above two pendant stems of flowers and foliage (minute chips to footrim, scratch to inside of footrim), blue AR monogram and Dreher's mark a quartered circle of Schumann, circa 1730

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A MEISSEN (AUGUSTUS REX) GLOBULAR BOTTLE-VASE perhaps painted by Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, with a narrow cylindrical neck, painted with Oriental flowers including peony and chrysanthemum, the neck with half-flowerheads on a seeded turquoise band between iron-red lines above two pendant stems of flowers and foliage (minute chips to footrim, scratch to inside of footrim), blue AR monogram and Dreher's mark a quartered circle of Schumann, circa 1730
22.5cm. high

Literature

Patricia Begg and Lorraine Rosenberg, 'Parasols and Pagodas', Exhibition Catalogue, September 22 to November 2, 1994, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, pp. 32-33, no. 76

Exhibited

'Parasols & Pagodas', no. 76, Ceramics and Glass Circle of Australia, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition 1994, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Lot Essay

Cf. Hugo Morley-Fletcher, op. cit., p. 38 for a bottle-vase which is perhaps the pendant to the present example; a similar style of painting appears on a vase illustrated by Otto Walcha, Meissner Porzellan, no. 55; see also a pair of vases illustrated by Stefan Bursche, op. cit., pp. 214-215, nos. 198 and 199

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