CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 24

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A MEISSEN PEAR-SHAPED CHINOISERIE CREAM-JUG
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 24
Painted by C.F. Herold and enriched with gilding, with a dignitary in a canopied chariot with two attendants and a blackamoor with a feathered headdress seated at a table with an Oriental, flanked by two crouching attendants, on a continuous terrace with flowering shrubs, a fence and a palm tree supported by a double iron-red line border, the loop handle with puce Laub-und-Bandelwerk, the small triangular spout with gilt scrolls, gilt line rim (restored chipping to footrim, slight wear to gilding)
3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Although an Oriental in a similar canopied two-wheeled chariot appears on sheet 14 of the Schulz-Codex, it resembles a print eine Japanerin auf dem Zweirad mit Diener (a Japanese lady in a Japanese two wheeler with a servant) by Arnoldus Montanus, gesantschappen aem de Kaisaren von Japan, der Ostindischen Kompagnie (Amsterdam, 1669), p. 168, much more closely. For an illustration of the print, see S. Ducret, Keramik und Graphik des 18. Jahrhunderts (Brunswick, 1973), p. 342.

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