FINE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART
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The
Highly Important Royal Armorial Presentation Chafing Dish, and
Stand, bearing the personal Royal arms of Frederick-Augustus II,
Elector of Saxony, King Augustus III of Made during the year 1745. Length of the Chafing dish which includes the pear wood handle: 113⁄4 ins. (30 cms.) Diameter of the stand: 101⁄2 ins. (26.5 cms.) Height with cover in place and positioned on the stand: 7 ins. (17 cms.) Marks: Blue crossed swords marks in underglaze blue to the underside of the stand and the chafing dish, the stand also with pressnummer 22. Provenance: Frederick-Augustus
II, Elector of Saxony, King Augustus III of The collection of their Graces The Dukes of Westminster. |
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An extremely important Meissen KPM Chinoiserie Teapot and Cover, of bombe form, painted on each side by Christian Friedrich Herold with Chinese figures at various pursuits and in conversation, on one side an elaborately attired chinaman with a pointed hat holds a flaming torch aloft whilst bending down to stroke a child who rides out on a white pony with a rich purple damasked saddle cloth, behind runs a young child his arms akimbo holding three balloonlike kites and a hankerchief which fly in the wind, in front a female figure wearing a long sleaved purple gown and topknot headdress holds a fan, and coaxes the horse with a fly whisk, on the other side three figures, including a widow wearing a veil, a richly gowned lady and another with a pointed hat, variously sit round a table and are in conversation and eating from bowls, to one side is flowering vegetation and to the other an alert exotic bird shrieks from a ball finial beside a potted berried bush and a teapot, insects and butterflies whirl above. |
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An Extremely Important Meissen Lidded Tankard, of large cylindrical form, decorated in a very bold palette by Johann Ehrenfried Stadler with large Chinese figures at various activities one chinaman wearing an iron red gown, kneeling and holding a fan, he points to another Chinese gentleman who wears a green and gold hat and holds a large circular parasol, to his right a further smaller Chinese gentleman darts about with a fan and a kite, they all stand before multicoloured garden border fences and are framed on each side with large sprays of orange, yellow and purple indianishe blumen flowers, below a gold and iron red diaper border with purple, blue and orange alternating mons, the base with a similar meandering floral pattern, the loop handle with running central ridge, the lower terminal to the handle moulded with a stylised acanthus leaf, the contemporary silver cover incised with a monogram and the initials ‘H A S D’ within a flat chased Laub und Bandelwerk border and with monogrammed thumbpiece which is surmounted by a crown, probably by Jorgen Jorgensen Egelsdorf d.E (Bergen). Circa 1730-35 |
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An extremely fine Meissen Teacaddy and cover, of shouldered rectangular shape, each side painted with a scene from a Royal Saxon Hunt, the front shows a hind and two young deers suckling, standing before a moss covered tree infront of a formal garden with spouting cascade, framed within a brown and gold rocaille base, to the right a Royal huntsman dressed in the yellow jacket and holding a hunting horn stands by his deer hound which looks back left towards the panel containing the deer. The reverse with a pair of brown bears, another silhouetted behind, one climbing a pine tree, the other biting a stump, within a forest, framed with similar brown and gold rocaille scrolls, to the right a seated man wearing a puce carmine jacket looses his mastiffs, the slightly domed shoulder painted with three sprigs of European flowers, and gilt line rim, the cover with very small landscape scenes and similar three floral sprigs, with alpine strawberry finial. Circa 1745. |
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An Extremely Fine Pair of Meissen Hares, both animals beautifully modelled by J.J. Kaendler and naturalistically coloured with every detail included, the Doe seated on her haunches looking to one side, the Buck with ears alert supported by his back legs as he raises himself to look at the viewer, both seated on rectangular bases applied with colourful flowers and leaves. Circa 1750. |
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A very rare Meissen Figure of Harlequin with a birdcage, modelled by J.F.Eberlein, seated wearing an elaborately scaled and py’d costume, its sleeves and trousers pinned with playing cards, with a rosette in his hat, his grimacing smiling face is painted with the moon and the star on one cheek, he holds aloft a dove in his cuffed right hand, his left hand resting on his knee, the open birdcage is set to one side and a seated cat with ginger markings sits looking up at the dove. Circa 1745. |
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A Rare Meissen Group of Harlequin and Columbine feeding Parrots, modelled by J.J.Kaendler showing Columbine, wearing a floral painted dress, her puce edged bodice laced with iron red threads her gently smiling head inclined up towards a green parrot perched high up in a tree that she tries to reach with her left hand, her right arm leans on a small gilt edged circular table on which sits another green parrot, Harlequin, wearing a conical hat, white ruff and jacket, turquoise trousers and red heeled yellow shoes enters the scene from behind and bursts into the fray, his scowling face painted with the crescent moons, the mound base applied with flowers and leaves. Circa 1746. |