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CIRCA 1723-28, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S B. TO BOTH
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A BÖTTGER BEAKER AND COVER (DECKELPOKAL)
CIRCA 1723-28, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S B. TO BOTH
Of tapering form, painted with vignettes of a naval engagement before a mountainous coastline and a harbour scene with three Oriental figures in conversation observed by another figure behind a column, with further figures of a gentleman and a lady with a fan and merchants and porters by a shore, before a tall ship and junk in the distance, within shaped quatrefoil cartouches edged with gilding and enclosing gold lustre panels issuing purple and iron-red scrolls, between Gitterwerk, the lower part moulded with a band of stiff acanthus, enriched in gilding above a stepped foot, the cover with a gilt knop finial flanked by harbour scenes within a raised roundels raditaing a further band of acanthus above gilt scrolls and purple and iron-red scrolling foliage (shallow chip and very minor chipping to flange of cover, small areas of wear to gilding of cover and rim of beaker)
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high
CIRCA 1723-28, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S B. TO BOTH
Of tapering form, painted with vignettes of a naval engagement before a mountainous coastline and a harbour scene with three Oriental figures in conversation observed by another figure behind a column, with further figures of a gentleman and a lady with a fan and merchants and porters by a shore, before a tall ship and junk in the distance, within shaped quatrefoil cartouches edged with gilding and enclosing gold lustre panels issuing purple and iron-red scrolls, between Gitterwerk, the lower part moulded with a band of stiff acanthus, enriched in gilding above a stepped foot, the cover with a gilt knop finial flanked by harbour scenes within a raised roundels raditaing a further band of acanthus above gilt scrolls and purple and iron-red scrolling foliage (shallow chip and very minor chipping to flange of cover, small areas of wear to gilding of cover and rim of beaker)
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.