THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A PAIR OF MEISSEN LUSTRED KAKIEMON FABELTIERE TUREENS MOUNTED WITH ARRANGEMENTS OF PORCELAIN FLOWERS

THE TUREENS CIRCA 1730-35, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARK, THE FLOWERS 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN LUSTRED KAKIEMON FABELTIERE TUREENS MOUNTED WITH ARRANGEMENTS OF PORCELAIN FLOWERS
THE TUREENS CIRCA 1730-35, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARK, THE FLOWERS 18TH CENTURY AND LATER
Painted on each side in lustred purple and iron-red with an overscale kylin flanked by a sprays of Kakiemon flowers, chrysthenum and peony the scrolling strap handles with Frauenkopf terminals with lustred headdresses, each bowl inset with a bouquet of colorful soft- and hard-paste porcelain blossoms affixed to tole peinte leafy stems
10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.) wide, 18½ in. (47 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

With Dalva Brothers, Inc., New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 31 October 1981, lot 208.

Lot Essay

The fantasy decoration on the present tureens, once thought to be the work of Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, is now recognized as having bveen inspired by copper-red decoration found on Chinese porcelain of the K'ang Hsi period, the lustre on the Meissen example used in place of copper-red, enamel blue in place of the underglaze blue eyes found on the Chinese prototypes.

For tureens of this shape, modelled probably by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner and with similar decoration, see J. Jefferson Miller, et al., Catalogue of The Hans Syz Collection, volume I, p.215, pl. 131.

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