Lot 1828 - A170 Silver & Porcelain - Monday, 15. September 2014, 02.00 PM
AUGUSTUS REX' LIDDED VASE WITH CHINOISERIE DECOR,Meissen, the porcelain ca. 1740, the chinoiserie painting after Gabriel Huquier according to a design by François Boucher, 19th century. Both sides with a finely painted, colourful garden landscape depicting a Chinese family gardening and two Chinese people fishing. Underglaze blue monogram mark AR, XII incised on the inside of the base ring. H 36.5 cm. (2) Provenance: Private collection, Basel.
Provenienz: Privatsammlung, Basel. Die Vorlage zu dieser Bemalung stammt aus Huquier's 1757 veröffentlichten Katalog ' Un livre de jolis sujets chinois' und wurde vor allem in der Manufaktur Sèvres als Vorlagenkatalog verwendet. (Perrin Stein, Repackaging China for France: The Collaboration of François Boucher and Gabriel Huquier', in: The French Porcelain Society Journal Vol IV, 2011, S. 56-67.
CHF 4 000 / 6 000 | (€ 4 120 / 6 190)
Sold for CHF 8 400 (including buyer’s premium)
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