A Meissen large écuelle stand, circa 1735
Lot 382. A Meissen large écuelle stand, circa 1735. Diameter: 11 in. Estimate: 12,000 - 18,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.
finely painted in the center with four pairs of Chinoiserie figures raised on Böttger lustre and gilt brackets embellished with iron-red and puce scrollwork, within a gilt diaper border, the gilt foliate scrollwork and Böttger lustre-embellished rim reserved with four landscape cartouches including one of a huntsman shooting water-fowl, the reverse with scattered indianische Blumen sprigs, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue.
Provenance: Antique Porcelain Company, before 1965
An Important Swiss Collection of European Porcelain, Christie's London, February 21, 2005, lot 44
Röbbig München, bearing label, March 2005.
Literature: Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 178, p. 428, illus.
Sotheby's. Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold, 24 Oct 2019

