CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND K MARK TO INTERIOR FOR KRETSCHMAR, PRESSNUMMER 46 TO UNDERSIDE

Details

A Meissen Imari oval butter-dish and cover
Circa 1745, blue crossed swords and K mark to interior for Kretschmar, Pressnummer 46 to underside
The butter-tub painted with a blue ground band with chrysanthemums and gilt foliage divided at each end with a flying phoenix within a lobed cartouche and gilt and iron-red panels with flowering plants, between moulded horizontal ribs alternating with gilt lines, each end with an upright flange with an iron-red flowerhead, the cover with a scalloped band of similar decoration, the long scroll finial flanked by a bird perched on a rock beside waves and a pine tree issuing from a rock about, within a gilt line rim (slight rim chip to one end of cover and slight rubbing to gilding of finial)
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anon., sale Sotheby's Zürich, 26th June 1971, lot 13

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Examples of this service, frequently described as the Warsaw service and which was derived almost exactly from an Imari brocade pattern, are to be found in most major public and private collections, but the form of the present lot is extremely rare. Other pieces are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, see den Blaauwen, op. cit. (Amsterdam, 2000), p. 217.

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