Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
A Meissen Gilt Figure of a Seated Pagod, Circa 1720
Lot Closed
April 4, 02:42 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen Gilt Figure of a Seated Pagod, Circa 1720
modelled seated with his right fist resting upon his raised knee, his body gilt, his robe gilt scattered symbols, and the back of his robe with a figure holding a parasol beneath a tree
height 3 1/4 in.
8.3 cm
The simplified modelling of this figure corresponds to one which was in the first inventory of Augustus the Strong's Meissen Collection at Holländische Palais, later to become the Japanese Palace. The 1721 inventory lists under no. 88: 6 Stk. do. Kleinere 3 1/2 Z. hoch [6 ditto small (seated pagodas with open mouths) 3 1/2 Z[oll] high], published in Böttgersteinzeug Böttgerporzellan, 1969, p. 46. A white figure bearing this number was sold at Phillips, London, June 9, 1999, lot 124. The 1721 inventory also lists under no. 90 an elaborate pierced porcelain pavilion featuring the same figure model, still retained in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden, inv. no. PE 2186 illustrated in Pietsch, 1996, p. 65 alongside a close Kangxi prototype.
A similarly gilt example of this model was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, April 19, 1969, lot 29.