A BTTGER PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED BEAKER VASE

CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION SLIGHTLY LATER, ENAMELLED BLUE CROSSED SWORDS, JOHANNEUM NUMBER N=229/W

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A BTTGER PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED BEAKER VASE
Circa 1720, the decoration slightly later, enamelled blue crossed swords, Johanneum number N=229/W
Of flaring cylindrical form applied with flowering branches of puce and iron-red blossoms with yellow and green leaves, the sides with Frauenkpf handles, the lower portion with stiff leaf tips decorated in Bttger lustre
6in. (17.1cm) high

Lot Essay

A virtually identical vase, possibly the pair to the present example, is in the Collection of the Zwinger, Dresden. Cf. Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, 1982, p. 69, colour plate.

See also An Important Collection of Early Meissen Wares, The Property of the Head of a European Royal House; Christie's Geneva, 7 June 1968, lots 24 and 25 for two white examples of the model and Antquitten de Kunsthandlung D. Pergamenter; Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 4-8 May 1909, lot 27, Tafel 14 for a coloured example with a band of scrolls in place of the stiff leaf tips.