CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

細節

A MEISSEN KAKIEMON RECTANGULAR TEACADDY AND COVER
CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Painted with Buddistic emblems in blue and turqouise outlined in black and iron-red, between iron-red lines, the sides with gilt flowerheads on an iron-red ground reserved with scrolling foliage, the cylindrical cover with a similar border, the shoulders and top of the cover with stylised flowers
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm.) high

來源

Peter Murdoch of Parkhouse
Mrs. G. M. Boyd, sale Chrsitie's London, 24th March 1969, lot 10 (900 gns. to Stodel)
Anon. sale Christie's Geneva, 11th November 1985, lot 119.

出版

Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Meissen Porcelain in Colour (London, 1971), pp. 36-7.

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

This teacaddy and cover comes from a service which first appeared in these Rooms on 24th March 1969, lots 9-12, 'The Property of Mrs. G. M. Boyd to whom it has descended from Peter Murdoch of Parkhouse'. It comprised an oviform octagonal teapot and cover, a rectangular teacaddy and cover and two pairs of octagonal two-handled cups and saucers. According to the catalogue, a letter of Murdoch's dated July 22nd 1815 traced the earlier provenance of the service to a gift from the Queen of Prussia to Caroline, wife of George II who in turn gave it to the Countess Cathcart. She gave it to Mrs. Cochrane (née Murdoch) who bequeathed it to her nephew, the writer of the letter.

This slighlty enigmatic note refers either to Princess Sophia Dorothea, daughter of George I and wife of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia who married in 1706 or to Elizabeth, daughter of Albrecht II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and wife of Frederick II 'The Great' who married in 1733. The former would seem the more convincing with the service being given as a gift between Royal sisters-in-law.

Two-handled cups and saucers from this service, or a closely related service appear in the literature, see R. Seyffarth's paper 'Marken der "Königlichen-Porcelain-Manufactur" zu Meissen von 1721-1750, featured in '250 Jahre Meissner Porzellan', Keramikfreunde der Schweiz, (1960) pl. M8 for an example from the Royal Saxon Collection with Japanese Palace inventory number N=W/343. See also the example in the Hans Syz Collection, Hans Syz et. al, Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Smithsonian Institute Catalogue, (Washington, D.C. 1979), pp. 200-1, no. 121. For an octagonal bowl with a similar pattern, see Erik Lassen, 'Davids Samling Meissen Porcelæn', Catalogue (Copenhagen, 1985), pp. 172-173, no. 70.