CIRCA 1724-25, RED ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A BÖTTGER TWO-HANDLED CHINOSERIE VASE
CIRCA 1724-25, RED ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Painted by J.E. Stadler and enriched in gilding, the inverted pear-shaped body with two Orientals holding elaborate fans and standing by stylised fences, rockwork and flowering shrubs, with birds and insects in flight above, the reverse with a flowering shrub, above a double iron-red line border and a moulded gilt band at the stem, the flared neck with flowering indianische Blumen, the wishbone-shaped handles with red and blue flowerheads and red scrolls, the high domed foot with a meandering flowering branch and an Oriental seated by a fence on a mound, above a similar double line border (footrim with two areas of restored chipping, slight chipping and some glazed-covered chipping, some areas of very slight wear, one handle with small firing fault)
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The handles, which do not otherwise appear on porcelain, were modelled by Irminger for stoneware beakers, such as the example still at Dresden illustrated in the 'Johann Friedrich Böttger' Zwinger Exhibition Catalogue (1982), 1/14, and it appears that no comparable vase is recorded. It has been suggested that the form could be derived from Spanish Silver.

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