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A MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL TEA-CADDY AND A COVER AND A KAPUZINER-BRAUN CLOBBERED TEABOWL AND SAUCER

THE CADDY CIRCA 1725-28, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, LATER METAL COVER, THE TEABOWL AND SAUCER CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS AND PRESSNUMMERN 6, THE DECORATION SLIGHTLY LATER

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A MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL TEA-CADDY AND A COVER AND A KAPUZINER-BRAUN CLOBBERED TEABOWL AND SAUCER
THE CADDY CIRCA 1725-28, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, LATER METAL COVER, THE TEABOWL AND SAUCER CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS AND PRESSNUMMERN 6, THE DECORATION SLIGHTLY LATER
The caddy of baluster form, the recessed panels painted in underglaze blue with a bird in flight above flowering plants alternating with flowering shrubs, the teabowl and saucer reserved with underglaze blue medallions enriched in enamel with stylised flowers and gilt with birds and insects in flight (slight rubbing to gilding)
The tea-caddy 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high overall (3)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 30th June 1986, lot 155 (tea-caddy)
Martha L. Isaacson Collection, sale Sotheby's, New York, 22nd May 2001, lot 184 (teabowl and saucer, part of the lot)

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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

For a tea-caddy painted with a very similar pattern, see Klaus-Peter Arnold et al., Meissen Blaumalerei aus Drei Jahrhunderten (Leipzig, 1989), p. 203. For similar teabowls and saucers, see Mary Campbell Gristina et al., The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain (Jacksonville, 1984), p. 152, nos. 234-235. Another similar example is illustrated by Hans Syz, et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (Washington D.C., 1979), pp. 208-209, no. 127.

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