A MEISSEN (AUGUSTUS REX) CHINOISERIE FLARED HEXAGONAL VASE painted in the manner of C.F. Herold with Orientals at various pursuits, taking tea, cooking and promenading, some with parasols among flowering shrubs on gitterwerk scroll supports with coloured drapery in puce, iron-red and turquoise above the bulbous lower part with gilt quatrefoil cartouches of similar figures, the flared foot with indianische Blumen divided by gilt foliage and between gilt line rims (some minute rubbing to gilding), blue AR mark, circa 1728

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A MEISSEN (AUGUSTUS REX) CHINOISERIE FLARED HEXAGONAL VASE painted in the manner of C.F. Herold with Orientals at various pursuits, taking tea, cooking and promenading, some with parasols among flowering shrubs on gitterwerk scroll supports with coloured drapery in puce, iron-red and turquoise above the bulbous lower part with gilt quatrefoil cartouches of similar figures, the flared foot with indianische Blumen divided by gilt foliage and between gilt line rims (some minute rubbing to gilding), blue AR mark, circa 1728
27.5cm. high

Lot Essay

For a garniture of similar vases in the J.Paul Getty Museum, see Gillian Wilson, Adrian Sassoon, Charissa Bremer-David, 'Acquisitions made by the Department of Decorative Arts in 1983' pp. 217-222, no. 16, The J.Paul Getty Museum Journal, Vol. 12/1984; another similar illustrated by Hans Syz, J. Jefferson Miller II, Rainer Rückert, op. cit., no. 32

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