CIRCA 1725, BLUE KITE MARKS

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN KAKIEMON FLARED BEAKER-VASES
CIRCA 1725, BLUE KITE MARKS
Each with a flared upper part, swelling central section and slightly flared lower part, painted by J.E. Stadler, each section with a continuous band of flowering plants issuing from rockwork, striped fences and birds and insects in flight divided by underglaze blue lines, the flared rims with an underglaze blue band of flowerheads and foliage enriched in gilding (one with restored crack to rim and minute chip to underside)
12 3/8 in. (31.3 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

With J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York, January 1952 ($400)
Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke Collection, sale Sotheby's New York, 26th September 1989, lot 16.

Exhibited

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland (anonymous loan), 30th March 1964 - 2nd October 1969.

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Lot Essay

Similar vases from the Royal Collection, Dresden, were sold by Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, on 7th October 1919, lot 219 (pl. 14). For a pair of vases of the same form with the same underglaze blue border in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, see Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, 2000), pp. 40-41, no. 15. For another pair of very similar form painted by Stadler, also in the Rijksmuseum, see A. Den Blaauwen, ibid, p. 71, no. 35.

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