A MEISSEN FABELTIERE FLUTED ÉCUELLE COVER AND STAND painted in the manner of Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck with fabulous beasts among flowering shrubs and rockwork and with birds in flight, the centre of the stand with a butterfly within a raised gilt well, the cover with branch finial with coloured flower terminals, each piece with shaped gilt line rims moulded with gilt shells (hairline crack to bowl, rim chip to stand and chip to one flower terminal), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummer 5 to footrims of écuelle and stand, circa 1740

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A MEISSEN FABELTIERE FLUTED ÉCUELLE COVER AND STAND painted in the manner of Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck with fabulous beasts among flowering shrubs and rockwork and with birds in flight, the centre of the stand with a butterfly within a raised gilt well, the cover with branch finial with coloured flower terminals, each piece with shaped gilt line rims moulded with gilt shells (hairline crack to bowl, rim chip to stand and chip to one flower terminal), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummer 5 to footrims of écuelle and stand, circa 1740
the stand 17cm. wide

Provenance

Margarete Oppenheim, sale Böhler, Münich, 18-20 May 1936, lot 838

Lot Essay

A similar signed example sold Sotheby's, 2 December 1958, lot 132; for a full discussion of Adam Friedrick von Löwenfinck's work see, Ralph Wark, 'Adam Friedrick von Löwenfinck einer der bedentendsten deutschen Porzellan-und Fayencemaler des 18 Jahrhunderts', Keramik-freunde der Schweiz, no. 34, p. 11-19

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