All items are for sale. For
further details please click on the thumbnails.
For prices please
contact us.
 |
A very rare Meissen Böttger
stoneware model of the head of an American Bald Eagle, modelled and
partially polished in a highly detailed natural way by Paul Walther, the
eagle’s head looking straight out, its plumage fanned before it, raised
on a stepped and canted triangular base.
Ref: 717
 |
A Meissen teapot and cover, the
globular body with a short curved, faceted spout and a Tau-handle, painted
in underglaze blue, gilding and enamels with the Tischchenmuster of
flowering chrysanthemum branches issuing from a stylised table in a fenced
garden, the spout and handle with sprigs of indianische Blumen, all below
an iron-red seeded trellis band, the cover similarly decorated.
Ref: 511
)) |
Strasbourg-rare Pigeon-Tureen and
Cover naturally modelled and painted in "petit feu" colours with
pale-puce and yellow beak and eyes, dark grey head, the pale-grey plumage
of its neck, chest and back with dark-grey dotted markings, a white patch
to its chest, some of the white plumage of its wings, abdomen and tail
with grey markings and tips, with pale-puce clawed feet on a shaped
rectangular shallow grassy mound base with two branch supports.
Circa 1745-50
Blue PH monogram of Paul Antoine Hannong, blue I to both.
Height: 25.3 cm (10 in)
Provenance: From a Continental collection that was formed before the
Second World War. Items from this collection have not been seen by
collectors and scholars since then.
Cover: Restoration to rim of right of wing feathers and edge of left wing.
Tureen: Damage to corner of stand base and rim of both sides of body and
associated flakes to tip of tail and beak.
Ref: 580
)) |
Strasbourg-Rare Pigeon- Tureen and
Cover naturally modelled and painted in "petit feu" colours with brown
beak and yellow eyes, its dark-grey and purple head with dark-grey
markings, its grey chest with a white patch, the white plumage of its
wings, abdomen and tail with grey markings and tips, with puce clawed feet
on a shaped rectangular shallow grassy mound base with two foliage
supports.
Circa: 1745 - 50
Height: 24.8 cm (9 ¾ in)
Provenance: From a Continental collection that was formed before the
Second World War. Items from this collection have not been seen by
collectors and scholars since then.
Condition: Tureen with chipping to foliage, flaking to tip of tail and
claws, chip to edge of footrim. Cover with restoration to the side of both
wings and tip of beak.
Ref: 581
)) |
A pair of Erfurt Pug Tureens and
Covers, recumbent to right and left, each with their head turned,
their coats of yellow-green hue, with manganese muzzles and eyes, red
tongues and one with blue nostrils.
Circa: 1760
Width: 6 ¼ ins (16 cm)
Mark: Manganese 3. / V to one cover and base, the other with pale-brown 4
to cover and base.
Condition: Base to one with short crack and slight chips. The other with
chips to rims and left-elbow and paw. The covers with some restored chips
to ears and rim near tail.
Ref: 650
)) |
A fine and rare Höchst Partridge
tureen and cover, modelled seated at lodge its upper body, head and
wings forming the cover, delicately painted in tones of brown, grey and
puce showing the feathers to a high naturalistic detail, its legs and
claws picked out in yellow.
Circa: 1755 Length: 6 ¾ ins (17.2cms)
No marks
Condition: minor restoration to beak Another similar Höchst tureen and
cover in the form of a partridge is illustrated by Margrit Bauer,
Europäische Fayencen, p.126, no.212.
Ref: 666
)) |
Vincennes Bleu Lapis Coffee Cup &
Saucer (Gobelet a la Reine et soucoupe). The cup with two heart-shaped
panels enclosing two birds one with a flowery branch in its beak
surrounded by elaborate gilt trailing foliage and flowers, the saucer with
two birds in flight, gilt dentil rims.
Circa 1753
Blue interlaced L's enclosing a dot and incised H.
Ref: 611
)) |
A fine and important pair of Meissen Groups of Rearing
Horses and their Grooms, each modelled after Johann Joachim Kaendler as
spirited Arab stallions, each with dappled white coats, cropped tails and
long manes, led by their bridles, one by a blackamoor and the other by a
Turk, each in typical brightly coloured silks and turbans, the rearing
horses supported on rockwork extending to the irregular shaped bases
issuing flowers and vegetation.
Circa: 1770
Height: 9 ¼ in (23.5 cms)
Marks: Blue crossed swords and dots marks to both.
Provenance: E.A. Treherne Esq. E.L. Paget, sold Sotheby’s
London 27th July, 1945, Lot 111.
Niarchos collection New York
Ref: 679
)) |
A
very rare Meissen Jug with Spout, the gently flaring sides of the cup
painted in the style of Johann Ehrenfried Stadler with Chinese figures
holding parasols beside flowering oriental plants, within purple
monochrome edged quatrefoil cartouches reserved on a yellow ground, the
exceptionally well turned foot with a broad gilt band, and the spout
painted with insects, the loop handle painted with iron red floral detail.
Circa: 1730
Height: 2 ins (5 cms)
Length: 4 ¼ ins (11 cms)
A similar example formerly in the Franz Oppenheimer Collection and then
the Dr. Fritz Mannheimer Coll. now in the Rijksmuseum, see Abraham L-den
Blaauwen ‘Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum’, no. 214.
Ref: 655
)) |
An extremely rare Meissen covered milk jug, of slender baluster shape, beautifully painted in the manner of Christian Frederich Herold with winter scene showing travellers meandering through a village, a windmill on the left and a castle to the right, within laub und bandelwerk gilt borders, containing bottger lustre panels and iron red and puce scrolling, the other side with a harbour scene, between sprigs of kakiemon flowers, the gold spout moulded in low relief with an acanthus leaf and the scrolled handle with solid gold thumbpiece, the cover with further landscapes and gold pine fruit finial.
Circa 1728
Height: 4 ½ ins (11.5cms.)
Marks, impressed former’s mark, gilder’s P to both pieces and crossed swords mark in underglaze blue to the underside of the piece.
Ref: 934
)) |
A very fine Meissen covered milk jug, of slender pear shape painted by Hauer with a continuous harbour scene, on one side, showing merchants in conversation at the quayside before a ship in full sail stretching through open water to figures in conversation on the other, the delicately scrolled tau handle and scroll moulded spout with gilt highlights, the cover with smaller landscapes and figures within iron red and gilt line borders together with a strawberry fruit and flower finial.
Circa 1740.
Height: 5 ins. (12.5cms.)
Marks: Crossed swords in underglaze blue to the underside.
Ref: 935