P031 - PAIR OF MEISSEN YELLOW-GROUND VASES

 

The porcelain circa 1730, blue AR marks, the decoration of later date

 

Of beaker form, painted in puce after Watteau with quatrefoil cartouches of couples in landscapes, within further sprays of indianische Blumen

(crack down side of one)

9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm) high (2)

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, pp. 172-173, fig. 80

 

Penny J. Sander, “European porcelain in the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia”, The Magazine Antiques, January 1982, p. 294, pl. VI.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the Scott-Allen Collection at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia from 1976 until 1996

 

On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” at The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art between June 1955 and May 1960