Ref: U612
Archive item - not for sale
Meissen twin-handled beaker, circa 1725-30, decorated with chinoiserie scenes depicting a single figure of a man wearing a hat with drinking vessels outside a pavilion with bird and insect by a flowering branch, and another figure engaged in catching a bird within a garden setting with an insect, all within a gilt scrollwork quatrelobe cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with purple, iron-red and green scrollwork, the handles with gilding, the gilded rim with a gilt scroll- and strapwork border to the interior, the base with the gold numeral ‘1.’, impressed Dreher's mark inside the footrim for Johann Martin Kittel. SOLD