Pair of Bottles after a Japanese Form – (Royal-Polish And Electoral-Saxon Porcelain Manufactory) Previous Next


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Date: 1730

Size: 25 x 9 cm

Museum: Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art (Toronto, Canada)

Technique: Porcelain

A pair of Meissen slightly lobed squat sake-bottles and stepped covers moulded with Frauenkopf masks. They were decorated at Augsburg in Schwarzlot. There is a pale Eisenrot that has Chinese men and women and a child with a lute. There is also a scroll painting and a bird lure seated beneath Silbermalerei pavilions with bird cornices. It is supported by symmetrical scrolling foliage and enclosing jesters

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