240 GERMAN CERAMICS: MEISSEN
Ewer 418418- Ewer and Basin
Meissen manufactory, circa 1740
Painting attributed to the studio of Chris
tian Frederich Herold
Hard-paste porcelain; polychrome enamel
decoration; gilding
The ewer and basin are both painted
beneath with the crossed swords in blue
of the Meissen manufactory; both are
impressed with the number 27.
Ewer: Height: 8 lA in. (21.2 cm); Width:
8% in. (20.6 cm); Depth: 4% in. (10.5 cm);
Basin: Height: z^7 A in. (7.3 cm); Width:
ι ft. Yz in. (31.8 cm); Depth: 10 in. (25.5 cm)
Accession number 84 .DE.918.1-.2
PROVENANCE
Sir Hugh Smithson, first Duke of North
umberland and Earl Percy (1714-1786);
by descent to Algernon Heber-Percy (sold,
Christies, London, October 30,1967,
lot 154); Dr. and Mrs. E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss
(sold, Christie's, Geneva, November 12,
1976, lot 197); (anonymous sale, Christies,
London, June 25,1979, lot 177); private col
lection, London (sold, Christie's, London,
December 3,1984, lot 275, to [The Antique
Porcelain Co., London]).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porce
lain of the Eighteenth Century (London,
1972), vol. ι, pp. 484-487; "Acquisitions/
1984," GettyMusJ 13 (1985), no. 67, p. 183,
illus.
Vase .1 419Vase .2 419Basin