CIRCA 1725, BLUE CADUCEUS MARK

Details

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN MODEL OF A PEACOCK (STEHENDER PFAU)
CIRCA 1725, BLUE CADUCEUS MARK
Modeled standing, its head turned, the stump hollow, possibly to receive a joss stick
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Herman Ball & Paul Graupe, Berlin, 23-25 March 1931, lot 449, tafel 78 (as one of a pair - this example illustrated at right).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 23 April 1998, lot 219.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 May, 2006, lot 10.

Sale room notice

Please note that this lot is more accurately dated 1733-35.

Lot Essay

Most of the extant examples of this model are in public collections, including examples in the the Musée Louvre, Paris; the Historisches Museum, Bern; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Compare the pair from the Untermyer Collection, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (64.101.23-24). It is interesting to note that most unmounted examples are decorated in a muted palette of earth tones whereas the gilt-bronze mounted examples are painted in the bright colors associated with Arita porcelain.

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