CIRCA 1742, INDISTINCT BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 23

Details

A Meissen cylindrical chocolate-pot and cover
Circa 1742, indistinct blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 23
Painted after Watteau, one side with a vignette of two lovers seated on a mound in a wooded landscape, the other with a couple dancing in a similar wooded landscape, surrounded by sprays of Holzschnitt Blumen, the spout moulded and gilded with foliage, the octagonal-section handle with a gilded foliage and shell-moulded terminal, the flat cover pierced with two apertures, applied with a branch handle issuing leaves and flowerheads and painted with a lady in a landscape and scattered sprays of flowers, gilt line rims (two of the flowers of the finial each with a minute chip, minute chip to the end of stalk, minute chip to tip of spout, two minute chips to enamels of vignette of two lovers, very minor rubbing to gilding)
7½ in. (19.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sale Galerie Jürg Stuker, Berne, December 1964, lot 2234

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

The engraved source for the two figures above are taken from the central couple in the engraving by N. de Larmesin after Jean Antoine Watteau's painting 'L'accordée de Village' (illustrated above left). See Emile Dacier & Albert Vuaflart, Jean de Jullienne et les Gravures de Watteau au XVIIIe Siècle, Catalogue Raisonné (Paris, 1931), Cat. Raisonné no. 116.

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