- Pair of Vases Mounted with Flowers
Bowls: Meissen manufactory, before 1733
Flowers: French (Vincennes manufactory),
circa 1745-1750
Mounts: French (Paris), circa 1745-1749
Hard-paste porcelain bowls; polychrome
enamel decoration; soft-paste porcelain
flowers; gilt-bronze mounts
Each bowl painted on the base with the
blue AR monogram of Augustus the Strong,
Elector of Saxony. Mounts struck with the
crowned C for 1745-1749.
Height: 1 ft. 3V8 in. (39.7 cm); Width:
ι ft. 3/8 in. (38.3 cm); Depth: 1 ft. i^3 /s in.
(34 cm)
Accession number 79.DI.59.1—.2
PROVENANCE
Consuelo Vanderbilt (Mme Jacques Balsan);
[Matthew Schutz, Ltd., New York].
- Group of "Japanese" Figures
Meissen manufactory, circa 1745
Model by Johann Joachim Kandier
Hard-paste porcelain; polychrome enamel
decoration; gilt-bronze mounts
Any marks that might be under the base are
concealed by the irremovable gilt-bronze
mount.
Height: 1 ft. 5% in. (45.1 cm); Width:
uVs in. (29.5 cm); Depth: S^9 Ae in. (21.7 cm)
Accession number 83.Di.271
PROVENANCE
Figure group: private European collection
(sold, Sotheby's, London, March 2,1982,
lot 168); [Winifred Williams, Ltd., London,
1982].
Parasol: Paul Schnyder von Wartensee,
Switzerland; [Winifred Williams, Ltd.,
London, 1982].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
M. A. Pfeiffer, "Ein Beitrag zur Quellenge
schichte des Europδischen Porzellans,"
Werden und Wirken: Ein Festgruss f٧r Karl
W Hiersemann (Leipzig, 1924), p. 285;
Sassoon, "Acquisitions 1983," no. 17,
pp. 222-224, illus.; "Acquisitions/1983,"
GettyMusJ 12 (1984), no. 19, p. 268, illus.
421
- Bowl
Porcelain: Chinese, Kangxi (1662-1722),
circa 1700
Decoration: German (Breslau), circa
1715-1720
Painted decoration attributed to
Ignaz Preissler
Hard-paste porcelain; underglaze blue and
black enamel painted decoration; gilding
Height: 2% in. (7.3 cm); Diameter: 57 A in.
(14.9 cm)
Accession number 86.DE.738
PROVENANCE
Octave du Sartel, Paris, before 1881 (sold,
Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 4-9,1894,
lot 151); (?) Familie von Parpart, Berlin
(sold, Lepke, Berlin, March 18-22,1912,
lot 488, pi. 39); Des Nordbφhmischen
Gewerbemuseums, Reichenberg (now
Liberec, Czech Republic), 1912; private
collection, Germany; [Kate Foster, Ltd.,
London, 1986].
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