CIRCA 1725, DREHER'S , TO FOOTRIM OF SAUCER

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A MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED CHINOISERIE BEAKER AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1725, DREHER'S , TO FOOTRIM OF SAUCER
Painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt, one side of the beaker with Orientals kneeing before a canopied altar with a black oni, the other with an Oriental holding up a tray on a pole before a figure with a begging dog, on grassy terraces with flowering shrubs, above alternating gilt and turquoise moulded fluted gadroons, the interior and handles richly gilt, the gilt ground of the saucer reserved with an ombrierte quatrefoil panel enclosing a vignette of an Oriental lady among children by a palm tree with two monkeys, the underside moulded with similar radiating fluted gadroons within a gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk border (beaker with slight scratch to gilt footrim and minute area of wear to underside of one handle)

Provenance

Anon., sale Koller, Zürich, November 1987, lot 2010.

Exhibited

Stedelijkmuseum, Amsterdam, No. 254.

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Lot Essay

A pair of beakers and saucers from the same service were sold by Christie's Geneva on 10th November 1986, lot 186, and a coffee-pot and teapot almost certainly from the same service were sold by Sotheby's London on 16th June 1987, lots 93 and 94. The unusual scene of the black 'oni' or devil on the altar does not appear in the Schulz Codex. A teabowl and saucer sold in these Rooms on 21st November 2005, lot 15, had a related scene.

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