CIRCA 1765, BLUE A. AND 4. (?) MARK

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AN ANSBACH CHINOISERIE SLOP-BOWL
CIRCA 1765, BLUE A. AND 4. (?) MARK
One side painted with two Orientals at discussion, the other with a finely dressed Oriental flanked by an attendant holding a parasol and a warrior with a quiver, bow and sword, divided by birds and insects in flight, the interior with three insects at the base below a shaped border of iron-red diaper panels edged with puce scrolls divided by gilt scrolls and pendant iron-red husks, gilt line rim (one side with restored rim chip, the other with minute restored rim chip, each with associated cracks from rim, one side with two small restored losses, slight wear to gilding and enamels)
7 in. (17.1 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Herbert Pick Collection
Anon., sale Stuker, Zürich, November 1956.

Literature

S. Ducret, German Porcelain and Faience (Fribourg, 1962), pp. 230-1, no. 91, where he points out that it was once on loan from the Herbert Pick Collection to the Stedeljik Museum.

Exhibited

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Ducret also points out that the chinoiserie decoration, which he suggests was painted by Meyerhöffer, is unique at Ansbach and was taken from Johann Nieuhof's travel book Die Gesandtschaft der Ost-Indischen Gesellschaft...an den Tartarischen Chan und nunmehr auch Sinischen Kaiser..., published in Amsterdam in 1666. The right-hand figure, with the sword and quiver of arrows, is taken from the engraving Sineese Mannen, Homes Chinois.

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