CIRCA 1735, BLUE AR MONOGRAM, DREHER'S XII TO FOOTRIM

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A MEISSEN (AUGUSTUS REX) CHINOISERIE YELLOW-GROUND BALUSTER VASE AND DOMED COVER
CIRCA 1735, BLUE AR MONOGRAM, DREHER'S XII TO FOOTRIM
Painted in the manner of C.F. Herold with Orientals on a terrace with fencing, one figure seated at a table and holding a fan, before a plinth surmounted by a bowl of objects and a palm tree, the reverse painted in a bright palette with peony, chrysanthemum and flowering shrubs, within quatrefoil cartouches, the cover with similar smaller cartouches with conforming decoration, the cylindrical neck painted in shades of purple and iron-red with a band of shell, scrolling leaf and flamiform ornament bordering a diaper-pattern panels (some minor surface scratches, principally to ground colour)
11 in. (28 cm.) high

Provenance

The Hermitage, St. Petersburg (inv. no. HZ4)
With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1964.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

The plinth supporting the vase in the scene also occurs on a vase in Dresden, see I. Handt and H. Rakebrand, Meissner Porzellan (Dresden, 1956), no. 39, and again on one of the vases in the Untermeyer Collection, see Yvonne Hackenbroch, 'Meissen and other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Catalogue (London, 1956), pl. 75.

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