CIRCA 1730, BLUE AR MONOGRAM, DREHER'S XII

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A MEISSEN AUGUSTUS REX BALUSTER VASE AND COVER
CIRCA 1730, BLUE AR MONOGRAM, DREHER'S XII
The domed cover with a richly-gilt cone-shaped finial, the vase boldly painted and gilt with Kakiemon-style flowering shrubs, foliage and a grasshopper perched on a blade of grass, the reverse with insects, moths, sprigs and trailing leafy branches, the neck with flower-sprays and sprigs, the cover similarly decorated with flowering branches issuing from rockwork, within a gilt line rim (restored rim chip to cover, minor associated retouching to gilding, finial cracked and restored, neck cracked and restored, very minor wear to enamels)
12 5/8 in. (32 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See the similarly decorated vase in Schloß Lustheim, illustrated by Masako Shono, Japanisches Aritaporzellan im sogenannten 'Kakiemonstil' als Vorbild für die Meißener Porzellanmanufaktur, Munich, 1973, p. 79, no. 123.

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