Lot 94
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A MEISSEN YELLOW-GROUND VASE

CIRCA 1735, BLUE AR MONOGRAM MARK

Details
A MEISSEN YELLOW-GROUND VASE
Circa 1735, blue AR monogram mark
Painted with birds on branches, an owl and scattered insects reserved on the yellow ground within gilt bands, the vase substantially cut down with the flaring neck missing
8.5/8in. (22cm.) high

Lot Essay

See the Saxon National Collection; Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, 23-24 March 1920, lots 401-402, Tafel XXI and the Van Diemen Collection; Hans W. Lange, Berlin, 26-27 April 1935, lot 714 for a pair of pale yellow-ground 'AR' vases similar in shape and factory mark and painted by the same hand as the present truncated example. See the note to lot 61 for a discussion of the present decoration, formerly attributed to Adam Friedrich von Lwenfinck.