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CIRCA 1728, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Details
A Meissen chinoiserie bourdalou
Circa 1728, blue enamel crossed swords mark
Painted by J.G. Höroldt, each side with Orientals in an exotic mountainous wooded landscape, one side with two Orientals attending to a seated Oriental lady by a table of vases and jars below purple and iron-red drapery, the distance with figures seated and promenading, the other with two Orientals attending to a seated lady bathing at the banks of a river, her loose robe revealing her legs and breasts, the distance with boating figures and a temple, each within an elaborate shaped oval gilt cartouche with Böttger-lustre panels edged with iron-red and puce Laub-und Bandelwerk, the ends with indianische Blumen, the front end also with exotic birds, below a gilt interlocking scroll border and gilt band rim, the interior with a scantily clad lady bathing in a river, holding a towel in her left hand and a bourdalou or bowl in the other, a waterfall to the left and an attendant with a swan to the right, within a similar cartouche below a similar border (some wear to gilt interior rim and border, slight wear to gilding of handle and footrim, underside of handle with hairline crack to glaze at top)
7½ in. (19 cm.) long
Circa 1728, blue enamel crossed swords mark
Painted by J.G. Höroldt, each side with Orientals in an exotic mountainous wooded landscape, one side with two Orientals attending to a seated Oriental lady by a table of vases and jars below purple and iron-red drapery, the distance with figures seated and promenading, the other with two Orientals attending to a seated lady bathing at the banks of a river, her loose robe revealing her legs and breasts, the distance with boating figures and a temple, each within an elaborate shaped oval gilt cartouche with Böttger-lustre panels edged with iron-red and puce Laub-und Bandelwerk, the ends with indianische Blumen, the front end also with exotic birds, below a gilt interlocking scroll border and gilt band rim, the interior with a scantily clad lady bathing in a river, holding a towel in her left hand and a bourdalou or bowl in the other, a waterfall to the left and an attendant with a swan to the right, within a similar cartouche below a similar border (some wear to gilt interior rim and border, slight wear to gilding of handle and footrim, underside of handle with hairline crack to glaze at top)
7½ in. (19 cm.) long
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's, 17th October 1977, lot 20
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.