Meissen octagonal yellow-ground double-handled beaker and saucer circa 1735, Ex Hoffmeister Collection.

The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part 1

Meissen octagonal yellow-ground double-handled beaker and saucer circa 1735

The beaker reserved on each side with a purple-edged panel painted with indianische Blumen and, on one side, butterflies and a phoenix, the saucer similarly decorated, the scroll-handles edged in gilding, the well of the beaker with a flower spray, the beaker: 8cm high, the saucer: 13.6cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised // inside foot rim of saucer 


Provenance:
The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part 1, Bonhams 25th November 2009, Lot 105
Baroness Renée de Becker;
Mr. and Mrs. Deane Johnson, Bel Air, California, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 9 December 1972, lot 49;
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 17 June 1975, lot 152;
Acquired in 1993

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 269

Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009

A second beaker and saucer, also formerly in the de Becker and Johnson collections, was sold by Sotheby's London, 21 October 1975, lot 107.