CIRCA 1723

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A MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED BOWL AND A COVER
CIRCA 1723
With square section angular handles, each side painted with river landscapes with distant fortresses, one scene with a mill, within gilt quatrefoil Böttger-lustre panelled gilt and iron-red scroll cartouches, the cover with indianische Blumen about a triple branch finial within a gilt interlocking C-scroll border (underside of rim of cover with minute chipping to rim)
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

William W. Blackburn Collection
Kathy Gillmeister Collection, California, no. G46

Literature

William W. Blackburn, 'The length of J.G. Höroldt's career as an artist and other notes', Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, July 1957, no. 39, pl. XVI, fig. 41, where he notes that the decoration is 'possibly by J.G. Herold, but more probably by J.G. Melhorn'.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

Two similar bowls and covers are in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 41, no. 130, and p. 72, where he refers to the present lot, and pl. 42, no. 131. A similar example from the Property of a European Nobleman was sold by Sotheby's, London, on 29th June 1982, lot 102.

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