CIRCA 1755, BLUE SHIELD MARK ABOVE 7, INCISED S TO FOOTRIM

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A VIENNA OVAL SUGAR BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1755, BLUE SHIELD MARK ABOVE 7, INCISED S TO FOOTRIM
Almost certainly made as a replacement for a Meissen (K.P.M.) jagdservice, the domed cover painted with two hounds above a pink-ground support enriched with puce scrolls issuing brightly coloured scrolls with bird's head terminals among branches within shaped pink borders and underglaze blue bands gilt with scrolls and flowerheads, the box with a hound chasing a stag and doe on a similar support (restoration to flange of cover and sprayed to interior, slight rubbing to gilding)
4¾ in. (12.1 cm.) wide

Provenance

Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild Collection, Rome
With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1968.

Literature

H. Syz et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (Washington, D.C., 1979), where it is referred to on p. 276.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

The pattern is derived from an engraving by Johann Schmischek of 1630 published in Groteschgen Büchlein. The Meissen service of circa 1725-30 to which this sugar-box possibly belongs is now widely dispersed. The Syz Collection has a Meissen teabowl together with a Vienna saucer (see the catalogue loc. cit, no. 175). This suggests that the saucer and this sugar-box were made as replacements, and that the service was most probably in Vienna in the 18th century.

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