Lot 441. A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1725. Diameter of stand: 6 7/8 in. Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

the straight-sided bowl and circular stand painted with cartouches depicting with Chinoiserie figures at various pursuits, including an ostrich hunt on the stand, enclosed within Böttger lustre, iron-red and gilt scrollwork borders, the cover similarly decorated beneath the gilt twig knop with a circular panel of Chinoiserie figures, each with a gilt-edged rim and a band of gilt scrollwork on the cover and stand,  the stand with incised Dreher's mark X for Johann Daniel Rehschuh (Rainer Rückert,  Biographische Daten der Meißener Manufakturisten des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1990, p. 124).

Provenance: Christie's Geneva, November 12, 1984, lot 169
Christie's London, December 12, 2002, lot 3.

Literature: Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 258, p. 540-41, illus.