A pair of Meissen porcelain baskets with mascarons representing the seasons
A pair of Meissen porcelain baskets with mascarons representing the seasons
Sulkowski-Ozier model with woven handles issuing from finely painted mascarons. Decorated with identical chinoiserie landscape scenes with birds and chrysanthemums. Blue crossed swords mark, pressnummer 33 (both pieces). The mascarons chipped, a vertical crack (circa 7 cm). H 8.7, 8.4, W 22.5 cm.
Circa 1740.
Literature
A basket model attributed to Kaendler in the Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Lustheim Palace (Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, no. 160 and 452).
A further basket with an exotic border in the collection of Helmut Wolfe (auctioned by Bonhams Knightsbridge on 17th June 1998, lot 84).
For this decor cf. Pietsch, Passion for Meissen. Sammlung Said und Roswitha Marouf, Stuttgart 2010, no. 151 f.
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A pair of Meissen porcelain baskets with mascarons representing the seasons
Sulkowski-Ozier model with woven handles issuing from finely painted mascarons. Decorated with identical chinoiserie landscape scenes with birds and chrysanthemums. Blue crossed swords mark, pressnummer 33 (both pieces). The mascarons chipped, a vertical crack (circa 7 cm). H 8.7, 8.4, W 22.5 cm.
Circa 1740.
Literature
A basket model attributed to Kaendler in the Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Lustheim Palace (Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, no. 160 and 452).
A further basket with an exotic border in the collection of Helmut Wolfe (auctioned by Bonhams Knightsbridge on 17th June 1998, lot 84).
For this decor cf. Pietsch, Passion for Meissen. Sammlung Said und Roswitha Marouf, Stuttgart 2010, no. 151 f.
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