Meissen Twin-Handled Beaker, Circa 1725-30

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

Dimensions:

Height: 3 ¼ in. (8.2 cm);

Condition:

minor wear to gilding;

Notes:

For a similarly decorated twin-handled beaker see Pietsch, ‘Johann Gregorius Horoldt 1696-1775’ (1996), pp.104-5, cat.82. Sketches of a similar figure to that on one side of the beaker can be found on plates 11, 12 and 15 of the Schulz Codex.