Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
A RARE MEISSEN OCTAGONAL TWO-HANDLED CUP AND SAUCER CIRCA 1730
Auction Closed
October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A RARE MEISSEN OCTAGONAL TWO-HANDLED CUP AND SAUCER CIRCA 1730
painted in a famille-verte palette with a bird perched on a rockwork mound amidst flowering plants, the rims with cell borders reserving panels of stylized flowers, an iron-red flower inside the beaker, applied with ribbed scroll handles, the two-handled cup with caduceus mark, the saucer with pseudo-lingzhi mark, each within concentric circles in underglaze-blue.
Width of saucer: 5 in.
12.8 cm
Edmond de Rothschild Collection
Christie's London, March 28, 1977, lot 7 (part, one of two)
Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 87, p. 314, illus.