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Pair of Meissen Dutch decorated flasks, the porcelain circa 1725, the decoration circa 1735, with later European mounts, of square section form with a long neck, decorated in the kakiemon style, with the ‘Hob in the Well’ pattern and a cat and bird by a flowering tree, the neck with formal scrollwork. height: 9 ¼ in. (23.3 cm.); This shape was originally used by Japanese potters for sake bottles and was popular with the Meissen factory from 1725-35, as was the story of Shiba Onko who rescued a friend from drowning in a  large pottery jar by throwing rocks down it causing the jar to smash; this pattern was first copied by Meissen around 1730 and subsequently by Dutch enamellers. Böttgers’s white undecorated porcelain was sometimes decorated outside the factory; for example, another Dutch decorated sake bottle is illustrated in Ducret, S., ‘German Porcelain and Faience’, pp. 286 & 287. 

Dimensions

23.3 cm. high




Stock number

U929
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