拍品 886
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A MEISSEN SMALL 'VERGISS-MEIN-NICHT' VASE AND COVER
A MEISSEN SMALL 'VERGISS-MEIN-NICHT' VASE AND COVER

BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, CIRCA 1745

细节
A MEISSEN SMALL 'VERGISS-MEIN-NICHT' VASE AND COVER
BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, CIRCA 1745
Of baluster form, painted front and back after Watteau on a gold ground with couples in park settings reserved within quatrefoil cartouches on the white ground applied overall with yellow-centered blue forget-me-not blossoms and trailing flowering vine, the cover en suite
8in. (20.3 cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

The present vase was originally conceived as part of a three or five-vase garniture. This type of applied forget-me-not blossom ground is first mentioned in J.J. Kändler's Taxa for June 1740: 'Wiederum zu einem ganz neuen Service, welches mit den sogenannten Blühmgen Vergiss mein nicht auss sauberste beleget und blau, wie est die Natur vermag, gemalet werden sollen... mit Ästlein und Blättern imitiert...'. See The Collection of Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke, Baltimore, Maryland; Sotheby's, New York, 26 September 1989, lot 90 for a detailed discussion.