P097 - MEISSEN PAGODA FIGURE

 

Circa 1710-1725

Modeled seated

3 ½ in. high

 

See Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 188, plate 39, fig. 153 for the example formerly in the collection of Siegfried and Lola Kramarsky.

 

LITERATURE

 

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 192, plate 86, fig. 305A

 

PROVENANCE

Sammlung Margarete Oppenheimer

 

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” in The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from June 1955 until May 1960.

 

NOTES BY CLEO M. AND G. RYLAND SCOTT, JR in the late 1950’s

MEISSEN PAGODA - WHITE PORCELAIN – CIRCA 1710-13

Purchased from Hans Backer of London. This specimen has an added interest as it was formerly in the famous Kramarsky collection. Many years earlier Mr. Backer had sold this same pagoda to the collector from his Berlin store.  He had forgotten this until he purchased it with some other similar items at the recent sale of the collection in London. After the purchase he found his old Berlin inventory tag attached to the inside of the piece. It is still there.

 

Honey Dresden Porcelain p. 46 says; "Figures were made in the white porcelain.  Among those of Chinese deities, etc., some little squatting °pagoda” figures with open mouths are not uncommon and often most delicately finished, (Plate XIV-C)".