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A Meissen group of Bacchus and attendants, late 19th centuryModelled by E.A. Leuteritz, Bacchus seated atop a barrel holding a goblet of wine aloft, a leopard skin draped across his lap, a kneeling nymph beside him pouring wine from a jug into a goblet held by a seated faun, a winged putto at the front holding another goblet of wine, a fruiting grape vine at the back of the rockwork base applied with leaves and flowers, 32.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised model number C35 x and impressed numeral (some restoration and chips)Footnotes:The group was modelled in the period between 1843 and 1850; see S. & T. Bergmann, Meissen Figures - Model Numbers A1 - Z99 (2014), no. 339.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Meissen armorial chocolate pot and cover, circa 1740-45Superbly painted, probably by B.G. Häuer, with a continuous landscape scene depicting figures with ruins and other buildings, including a sign with an inscription and the crossed swords, and the arms of Giustinian-Lolin beneath a tilted coronet, the shoulder with a gilt border of seeded panels edges with scrollwork, the scroll-moulded spout and handle base gilt, the flat cover with two vignettes within gilt and iron-red concentric circles, 14cm high, crossed swords mark in blue, both with two gilt dots (some losses to gilding) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:The Property of a Lady, sold Christies London, 9 July 2001, lot 208;Property from a New York Private CollectionThe two separate Venetian patrician families, Giustinian and Lolin, appear to have united in the 17th Century after the Lolin family died out in 1626. Maureen Cassidy-Geiger suggests that the service was probably made for one of three Giustinian brothers - Zuanne, Alvise or Marco - or for Almoro Giustinian, a member of the San Vidal branch of the family, who married Benedetta Dolfin in 1714 (M. Cassidy-Geiger (ed.), Fragile Diplomacy (2007), p. 228).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A pair of Meissen models of parrots, circa 1967After the models by J.J. Kaendler, each perched on a tree-stump with a fruit in its beak, naturalistically painted in bold colours, the trees applied with leaves, flowering branches, fruit, a beetle, snail and a caterpillar, 28.5cm and 31.5cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised 20 and 20X, impressed 149 and 29, respectively, and with date symbol > for 1967, one with green painter's number 40 (one leaf tip broken off) (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1735Each painted in iron-red monochrome with Kauffahrtei scenes depicting merchants and their wares by a quayside, each within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red scrollwork and trellis panels, gilt strap- and scrollwork borders to the rims, an iron-red spray of indianische Blumen to the inside of the teabowl, three branches to the reverse of the saucer, the teabowl: 4.4cm high; the saucer: 12cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 5. to both (some flaking to gilding) (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Meissen figure of the Virgin Immaculata, circa 1730-35Probably modelled by J.G. Kirchner, standing on a serpent wrapped around blue globe flanked by three putti, all on a canted rectangular base embellished with gilding, with a gilt halo and gilt-edged robes with a broad gilt stylised foliate border, 20cm high, faint crossed swords mark in blue (small chip to halo)Footnotes:Another example of this figure is in the Bavarian National Museum, published by R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (1966), no. 901, where the author notes that Kirchner recorded '1. Marienbild mit beschlagenem Postament' [1 figure of Maria with canted pedestal] between 1730 and 1733.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen group of 'The Broken Bridge', late 19th centuryAfter the model by M.V. Acier of 1777, with a swooning lady supported by a gentleman in front of the broken planks of a bridge, a cupid at their back and a sitting putto in front, on an oval rockwork base with a gilt classical frieze, 24.8cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised model number F63, impressed numeral and painter's number (minor restoration and small losses)Footnotes:The group was modelled by M.V. Acier in February 1777; see Clarke 1988, no. 66, p. 30 and S. & T. Bergmann, Meissen Figures - Model Numbers A1 - Z99 (2014), no. 29.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare lobed Cozzi plate, circa 1770Finely painted with a landscape scene a sleeping figure and a youth seated on rocks and a shepherd on a donkey with several sheep to the right, within a stylised floral band and a purple foliate border around the edge of the well, 23.7cm diam. (very minor wear, small chips to footrim)Footnotes:Two plates painted in a similarly detailed style, possibly by the same hand, are illustrated in M. Ansaldi/A. Craievich, Geminiano Cozzi e le sue porcellane (2016), nos. 59 and 60.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Sèvres pomade pot and cover (pot à pommade et couvercle), dated 1759Painted by Vincent Taillandier, with cartouches of flower sprays on a green and bleu-lapis ground, gilt rims, the cover similarly decorated and applied with a flower finial, 7.3cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter f, painter's mark for V. Taillandier, incised 3 (tiny restuck flake to cover) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Otto Blohm Collection, Hamburg (sold by Sotheby & Co., London, 5 July 1960, lot 120);Sir John Plumb F.B.A., no. 26;Vincennes & Sevres from a New England Collection, Christie's New York, 5 May 1999, lot 69;The Pompey Collection, sold Christie's New York, 23 May 2002, lot 18;Sèvres Porcelain from an International Private CollectionLiterature: Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as collected by Otto Blohm (1953), no. 372, p.252.For a cup and saucer with blue- and green-ground decoration and a full discussion of this type of decoration, see Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (2000), no. 84, pp. 178-180. The combination of bleu-lapis and green grounds was mainly used during the years from 1758 to 1762, although the factory seems to have attempted the combination earlier, for instance in 1752, when they listed several pomade pots with landscape decoration with a fond bleu et verd. The colour combination was also described as saffre et vert in the factory sale records.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen two-handled bowl, cover and stand, circa 1725The bowl on a flared foot with gilt bands and with pierced, gilt-edged scroll handles, each side painted with a chinoiserie scene within a gilt scrollwork quatrelobe cartouche edged with iron-red and purple scrollwork, the cover with three similar cartouches, surmounted by a gilt ball finial, the stand painted with indianische Blumen within and outside the moulded, gilt-edged stand, the rim with a broad band of gilt scroll- and strapwork, the reverse of the stand with iron-red and purple flower sprigs, the stand: 15.8cm diam.; the bowl: 12cm across handles, crossed swords marks in blue enamel and gilt F. to all three pieces (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen KPM octagonal sugar box and cover, circa 1725Painted with a continuous chinoiserie scene between gilt bands depicting, on one side, a sleeping figure, and on the other a figure kneeling before a boiling kettle on a brazier, the ends with rabbits and a recumbent deer, respectively, the cover with two similar vignettes enclosed by a trellis band reserved with flower panels, gilt bands and an iron-red fretwork border,, gilt-edged rims, the finial embellished in gilding an iron-red, 11.4cm across, K.P.M. in underglaze-blue (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Property from a New York Private CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen group of putti sharpening arrows, late 19th centuryOne putto wearing a black hat and sharpening arrows on a grinding wheel, a basket of arrows beside him, the other seated next to him holding an arrow up in her left hand, a leafy tree behind them, on a high rockwork base, 20.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised model number E26, impressed numeral and painter's number (minor restoration and small losses)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen octagonal sugar box and cover, circa 1725Each side finely painted with a harbour or estuary scene with distant ships, one with a figure on the shore in the foreground, within a gilt quatrelobe scrollwork cartouche edged with purple and iron-red scrolls, each end with indianische Blumen, the cover with two similar vignettes enclosed by a purple trellis band, gilt scrollwork, a purple seeded band and the gilt-edged rim, green and gilt finial, 11cm across; 7.5cm high, K.P.M. and crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 32. to both (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Vincennes bleu-lapis ground sugar bowl and cover (sucrier ovale à Compartiments), dated 1754Decorated with finely tooled gilt floral and trelliswork cartouches enclosing gilt birds in flight, the rims with gilt dentil borders, the cover similarly decorated and applied with a foliate entwined loop handle, 12cm high, 15.9cm long, 10.9cm wide, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter A in blue, incised mark (2)Footnotes:For a brief discussion of the shape, see Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, vol. II, (2009), no. 137.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen KPM teapot and cover, circa 1725-30Each side finely painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting two figures flanked by flower, within an elaborate gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and iron-red scale-ground panels and edged with iron-red and purple scroll- and strapwork, the body, spout and handle further painted with indianische Blumen and insects, the eagle spout and the scroll handle embellished in gilding, the domed cover with a continuous chinoiserie scene above iron-red lines between gilt bands, 12.5cm high, K.P.M. and crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt 39. to both (very minor chips) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Property from a New York Private CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Tournai plate from the Duc d'Orléans service, circa 1787Decorated by J.-G.-J. Mayer after the Comte de Buffon's ornithological books Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, with a white-crested flycatcher in the well, the blue-ground rim reserved with three rectangular panels enclosing further birds alternating with three oval panels enclosing insects, surrounded by elaborate gilt scrollwork, the bird titled in black on the reverse, 23.5cm diam., incised mark d (restuck through middle with rivets to underside)Footnotes:The birds titled on the reverse are:gobe mouche blanc huppé, du Cap de Bonne-espéranceperruche, de giugimerle à longue queue, du sénégaltourneau, des terres magellaniquesIn 1787 the Tournai factory received an order for a service for Philippe-Joseph, Duc d'Orléans (1747-93). It is not known whether the entire service was delivered to the Palais-Royale in Chantilly, but it is certain that not all pieces were delivered in 1791. This extensive service comprised a total of 1593 pieces, of which 594 were sold to the Prince of Wales through the dealer Robert Fogg, recorded in two invoices dated 18 July 1803 and 9 October 1806 (See: L. Delplace, Considérations sur les porcelains de Tournai (1970), pp.256-259). Additional pieces were certainly delivered as there are more examples of some shapes in the Royal Collection than mentioned on the invoices of 1806 and 1809. Only 565 pieces of the service survive in the Royal Collection, which leaves 29 pieces unaccounted for, which might have been given away as gifts.A cup and saucer from the service was sold in these rooms, 8 December 2010, lot 152.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two rare Meissen Hausmaler lobed almond-shaped dishes, circa 1725Decorated in Augsburg, probably in the Seuter workshop, in gilding, each with a chinoiserie vignette depicting two figures on a scroll- and strapwork bracket in the centre, the gilt-edged rims with a band of scrollwork on the inside edge, 14.9cm (very minor wear, miniscule rim chip) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Private Collection, London (by 1971)Literature:S. Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augbsurg, vol. I (1971), ill. 184The form is listed in the weekly reports of the work of the Dreher and Former between 1723 and 1727, where it is referred to as a 'Schiffchen' [little ship], 'gemuschelt' or 'gerippt' [ie lobed]; quoted by Claus Boltz, Die wöchentlichen Berichte über die Tätigkeit der Meissner Dreher und Former vom 6. Juni 1722 bis 31. Dezember 1728, in Keramos 178 (2002), p. 82, and ills. 75 and 76 for other examples of the form.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen turquoise-ground cream pot and cover, circa 1735Reserved with gilt-edged quatrelobe panels enclosing chinoiserie scenes with figures engaged at various pursuits, details heightened in gilding, on three claw feet, the spout and handle embellished in gilding, the cover similarly decorated, 11.3cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (some wear and retouching to gilding) (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Freiberg pewter-mounted stoneware jug (Birnbauchkrug), circa 1670The pear-shaped body with a Kerbschnitt ground reserved with strapwork borders with circles and bands of black and white enamel floral devices with relief-moulded masks and dotted borders to the rims, the unmarked domed pewter cover with flowers and foliage and a mask thumbpiece, applied with paper labels numbered 1134 (in ink) and 27 (printed), 18.8cm high, impressed workshop mark of a flower on the baseFootnotes:A similar jug with the same workshop mark is in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne; see G. Reineking von Bock, Steinzeug (1986), no. 822.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare Meissen armorial two-handled tureen stand from the Sulkowski Service, circa 1735-38Lozenge-shaped, painted with the arms of Sulkowski and Stein zu Jettingen surrounded by scattered indianische Blumen and two bound sheaves, the rim moulded with broad panels of basketwork and applied at each end with a scroll handle, 43.8cm across handles, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (one handle restuck, the other restored)Footnotes:The list of the service in the Meissen archives includes four large oval tureens and '4 Detto Einsatz-Schalen'; a supplementary order made on 29 July 1737 included '4 Detto Ovale Einsatz Schaalen, davon 3 Stück schon abgeliefert, 5 kleinere Detto, welche den 7. September 1737 geliefert worden' [4 ditto (large) oval stands, of which 3 already delivered, 5 smaller ditto, which were delivered on 7 September 1737] (quoted by H. Rakebrand, Meissener Tafelgeschirr des 18. Jahrhunderts (1958), pp. 14-15).J.F. Eberlein's work records for February 1737 include: 'Eine neue ovale Cretentz-Schale geflochten und mit Henkeln, which may refer to the present form.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Meissen serving spoon from the Sulkowski Service, circa 1735-38The handle and underside of the spoon moulded with basketwork, painted with scattered sprigs of indianische Blumen and banded sheaves, the end of the handle with the arms of Sulkowski and Stein zu Jettingen, the edges of the handle with panels of blue flowers on a seeded yellow ground, 30.5cm (handle and tip of bowl restored)Footnotes:One of only eight serving spoons that were part of a supplementary order of July 1737 and listed in the specification as '8 Stück Vorlege Löffel' [8 serving spoons]. The service included 48 smaller spoons (referred to in the delivery specification as 'Tafel Löffel [48 table spoons], of which one, together with a knife and fork, survives in the Porcelain Collection in Dresden (PE 1390a-c). See H. Rakebrand, Meissener Tafelgeschirr des 18. Jahrhunderts (1958), pp. 14-15, for a transcription of the delivery specifications.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A matched pair of Meissen figures of Malabar musicians, late 18th/19th centuryAfter the models by F.E. Meyer, each wearing a straw hat and patterned costumes, the lady with a lantern on her back and playing the hurdy-gurdy, a plant in an urn to her side, the gentleman playing the guitar, with a box hanging from his belt at the rear and a leafy tree-stump at the rear, both on bases moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork, 31cm and 32.5cm high, the lady with crossed swords mark, asterisk and two dashes in blue and incised model number 1319 to rear of base, the gentleman with crossed swords mark in blue, incised model number 1523 and impressed numeral to rear of base (minor restoration) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Ludwigsburg figure of a dancer, circa 1765Modelled by J. Nees, holding out his arms and wearing an elaborate costume comprising of a red waistcoat, gilt patterned jacket, blue striped sash, pink breeches and gilt feathered hat, the base moulded with gilt edged scrollwork and applied with a tree stump support, 15.3cm high, painter's mark S in puce, impressed UM/TF, 3 and incised N 52 (left arm restuck, restoration to left hand)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A large Meissen swan tureen and cover, circa 1774Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, naturalistically modelled with its head turned slightly to the left, holding a leafy branch in its beak, the head coloured in iron-red and black and the feet in grey, 37.5cm high; 35cm across, crossed swords, asterisk and indistinct numeral in blue, incised model number E98., impressed 41 (restored haircrack to one side of tureen) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 15 April 1997, lot 91;Acquired by the present owner in the above saleKaendler's Arbeitsberichte (work records) for December 1773 record: 'Eine große Terrine in Gestalt eines Schwanes inventiret und modelliret. Es ist diese Terrine von zierlicher Größe, der Schwan sitzet, und siehet sich mit vieler Lebhaftigkeit um, sperret seine Flügel ein wenig vom Leibe abwärts, welche den Durchschnitt des Deckels sehr fein bedecken; darbey...daß solche paarweise auf einer Tafel einer gegen den anderen aussehen, indem zweyerley Hälße dazu modelliret werden' [invented and modelled a large tureen in the form of a swan. It is this tureen of delicate size, the swan sits, and looks around with much animation, feathering its wings a little from the body, which very finely cover the width of the lid; in the process...so that they can be put on a table in pairs looking at each other, in that two sorts of necks have to be modelled]; see R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (1966), no. 1125.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Two Meissen Imari lobed plates, late 18th centuryDecorated in Imari style in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding, the centre with a bird perched on rockwork above stylised waves and opposite prunus and flowers issuing from rockwork, the border with two lobed panels enclosing a phoenix against overlapping panels of flowers reserved on gilt, iron-red and blue grounds, the reverse with three trailing branches, 23.7cm across, crossed swords mark and asterisk in underglaze-blue, (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Dippoldiswalde pewter-mounted stoneware jug, late 17th centuryMoulded with the Madonna and Child in low relief embellished in coloured enamels and gilding against Kerbschnitt flanked by spiralling panels of geometric patterns with relief borders, between bands of relief-moulded foliate motifs coloured in blue, white and red enamels, the pewter cover inset with a circular medallion inscribed 'DER SIEGES HELD ERLöST DER WELT' and with a ball thumbpiece, three touchmarks, 15.5cm high (handle replaced, restuck section to rim)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen group of the capture of the tritons, late 19th centuryOriginally modelled by J.J. Kaendler and re-worked by E.A. Leuteritz, depicting Venus and her assistant partially dressed in draperies hauling in a fishing net containing a boy Triton and various fish, Cupid assisting with the catch, on a rockwork base with reeds, shells, a frog and a lobster, 28.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised model number C35, impressed numeral and painter's number (some restoration and small chips)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen Böttger stoneware black-glazed coffee pot, circa 1710-19Of square section baluster form with a scroll handle and curved spout, covered inside and out in a black iridescent glaze, each side wheel-cut exposing the red stoneware body with a crowned oval cartouche flanked by scrollwork and foliage, above foliate and floral branches, a chain attached to handle and spout, 13.5cm high (cover missing, small chip to corner of rim)Footnotes:A black-glazed stoneware example of similar type with wheel-cut decoration on the side of a crowned empty cartouche above moulded flowering branches is in the Dresden porcelain collection (A. Loesch, 'Sächsich schwartz lacquirtes Porcelain' (2013), no. 83, and another of this type was sold in these rooms, Important Meissen Porcelain from a Private Collection, Part III, 22 July 2020, lot 11.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A very rare and important Dutch delft basin, Adrianus Kocks, De Grieksche A, 1686-1701Modelled after a metal shape, moulded on the sides, two indented larger sections, decorated with dense floral patterns including a border of cabbage roses and sprays of mixed flowers, the borders with Chinese porcelain inspired elements, the well with a band of coin-pattern alternated with lozenges with four dots, 46cm x 36.2cm, AK mark for Adrianus Kocks, owner of De Grieksche A, 1686-1701Footnotes:Provenance:European private collection;Thence by descent to the present ownerDe Grieksche A factoryAdrianus Kocks and his wife Judith Kocks-van Eenhoorn took over the Grieksche A factory from Lambertus van Eenhoorn in 1686. It is known that Kocks, together with Lambertus Cleffius, owner of De Metaale Pot, tried to expand into the French market. But the height of Adrianus Kocks's commercial entrepreneurship was undoubtedly the reputation he built up as the main supplier of Delftware to the court of King William III and his wife Queen Mary. After having left the Netherlands for England, William and Mary ordered Delftware in large quantities from Adrianus Kocks. In January 1701, Adrianus Kocks passed on the workshop to his son, Pieter. He died only five months later and his coffin was carried by 18 bearers, an indication of the high esteem in which he was held in in Delft. For more information on the factory history of De Grieksche A, see Delfts Aardewerk: Geschiedenis van een Nationaal Product (1999), pp.64-153.William and Mary as patrons of De Grieksche A factoryMuch of the evidence about the orders placed by William and Mary is circumstantial, partly because the factory records have mostly not survived. Archaeological research conducted in the gardens around the Dutch Royal Palace of 'Het Loo' in Apeldoorn has revealed some exceptional objects marked SVE for Samuel van Eenhoorn, the owner of De Grieksche A before Adrianus Kocks such as garden ornaments and tulip vases. The Royal couple was passionate about Delftware and Mary certainly played an important role placing orders and defining its use in the Royal interiors. In one of his poems, Jan d'Outrein (1662 – 1722), suggested that it is highly possible that some of the most remarkable pieces were made after the Queen's specifications. She also probably contributed to the spread of the taste for expensive luxurious Delftware amongst the English aristocracy. It is now widely accepted that Queen Mary contacted Samuel van Eenhoorn shortly after she moved to the Netherlands. After Samuel's death, De Grieksche A factory stayed under the patronage of the House of Orange for many years. In her recent publication Koninklijk Blauw (2020), Suzanne Lambooy notes the influence of Daniel Marot, who joined the Household in 1684 and was charged with most of the designs for the gardens and interiors of the various Royal Palaces. Marot was instrumental in introducing a new Baroque style which was met with enthusiasm in the courts of Europe. Wall-covering textiles and mirrors were combined with carved giltwood consoles and monumental Delftware, and by cleverly integrating various previously more isolated interior elements, Dutch Delftware was promoted to play an integral role in the conception of a Royal interior. More and more elaborate and ambitious shapes were designed for the Royal Court, such as the famous tulip vases and large garden vases, produced, amongst others, by De Grieksche A. It is likely that this exceptional basin can be seen in the context of these expensive and technically highly accomplished pieces made for the Court of William and Mary or one of their entourage.For further reading on Royal patronage of De Grieksche A see also: A.M.L.E. Erkelens, 'Delffs Porceleijn' van koningin Mary II: Ceramiek op Het Loo uit de tijd van Willem III en Mary II. Queen Mary's Delft porcelain': Ceramics at Het Loo from the time of William and Mary, Zwolle.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen group of card players, late 19th centuryAfter the 18th century model by J.J. Kaendler, two finely dressed ladies and a gentleman seated at a card table playing a game of cards, the base applied with leaves and edged with a gilt line, 14.8cm high, 18.5cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised model number 1291, impressed numeral and painter's number (minor restoration and chips)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen rectangular tea canister and cover, circa 1735Painted with chinoiserie vignettes of figures engaged at various pursuits, on gilt scrollwork pedestals surrounding an oval medallion with a miniature chinoiserie scene in puce camaieu, edged with iron-red and puce scrolls, the gilt shoulder edged with gilt scrollwork, the cover similarly decorated, 10.8cm high, crossed swords mark in purple, impressed Dreher's mark for Gottfried Bergmann or Paul Wildenstein (minor wear to gilding) (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Meissen circular stand from the Sulkowski Service, circa 1735-38Moulded with basketwork and raised on four gilt-edged scroll- and shell feet, applied with two crowned armorial shields painted with the arms of Sulkowski and Stain zu Jettingen, 23cm across feet; 10cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blueFootnotes:Possibly one of the '64 Stück Confect-Aufsatzstücken, wozu 160 kleine Figurgen und 48 kleine Blumen Bouquettes' [64 dessert garniture pieces, to which 160 small figures and 48 small flower bouquets] mentioned in an additional order list of July 1737.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Seventeen Meissen figures of children as gardeners and musicians, second half 20th centuryModelled holding various tools, instruments and flowers, on scrollwork bases, 10.5cm - 14.5cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, various impressed model numbers and numerals, various date marks (minor chips) (17)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen figure of 'La Belle Chocolatière', late 19th centuryModelled by Carl Gotthelf Habenicht and others, 1837-42, after the 18th-century pastel painting by Jean-Etienne Liotard, wearing a white cap with blue ribbon, yellow bodice with flowers and foliage, blue skirt with floral pattern and pink apron with puce sprigs and dots, holding a black and green tray, on a square rockwork base, 36.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised model number V 86, impressed numeral and painter's mark (minor wear)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen group of lovers taking snuff, late 19th centurySeated and leaning towards one another, her arm around his shoulder, wearing a bonnet and floral dress, he holding a snuff box towards her outstretched hand, wearing a blue coat and striped pink breeches, the base edged in gilding, 13.3cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised model number 656, impressed numeral and painter's numberThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Meissen covered two-handled beaker and saucer, circa 1730-35Each painted with European landscape scenes within gilt quatrelobe scrollwork cartouches embellished with iron-red and purple scrollwork. the handles gilt between painted sprigs of indianische Blumen, the reverse of the saucer with similar sprigs and insects in iron-red, gilt ball finial to cover, the beaker and saucer with gilt scroll- and strapwork borders, the saucer: 13.6cm diam.; beaker and cover: 11cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 1. to all three pieces, impressed former's marks for Johann Martin Kittel und J.E. Grund Senior (3)Footnotes:Provenance:Anon. sale, Christie's London, 3 June 1974, lot 70 (part);Anon. sale, Sotheby's Zürich, 1 June 1994, lot 70Literature:M. Newman, Die deutschen Porzellanmaufakturen, I (1977), ill. 30;D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Sammlung Hoffmeister, I (1999), p. 170;U. Pietsch/K. Jakobsen, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1997), no. 182Exhibited:Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 19 January-6 April 1997;Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Albertinum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 7 May-13 July 1997This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Creussen pewter-mounted stoneware jug (Apostelkrug), late 17th centuryThe centre applied with a low-relief frieze embellished in enamels depicting Christ flanked by the twelve Apostles, each figure titled above, between bands of blue, white and red strapwork ornament, blue lines, and fruit and leaves trailing around the footrim, the handle with a lion mask and pendant foliate motif, the unmarked pewter cover with a ball thumbpiece, 21cm highThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Meissen ormolu-mounted figure of Harlequin with a 'Pass Glass', circa 1740Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, seated on a rocky mound drinking from a 'pass glass' in his right hand and holding goat bagpipes on his left arm, wearing a black beret, a half-turquoise and half-yellow tunic with purple bows, the yellow half reserved with playing cards, and trousers with one blue and one red leg, his black shoes with yellow ribbons, on a raised and pierced ormolu base with rockwork, foliage and scrollwork, 20cm high (right arm and horns restuck, minor restoration)Footnotes:The earliest reference to this model is in Kaendler's Arbeitsberichte (work notes) in October 1736, which describes a recumbent small dog next to the figure. Kaendler's Taxa of overtime work made between 1740 and 1748 records: '1 Arlequin, aufin Postament sitzend und einem Dudelsack in Händen habend, nebst einen Bass-Glass trinekend' [1 Harlequin seated on a pedestal and holding bagpipes in his hands, while drinking from a pass glass] (quoted by M. Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked (2001), no. 72, where the example in the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, is published, along with other recorded examples.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Naples, Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea biscuit group of a river god, circa 1790Modelled by Filippo Tagliolini, leaning on his right arm which is perched on an urn, a wreath made of bulrush on his head, his right arm raised, 18cm high (small losses)Footnotes:Provenance: Italian private collectionThe model is reminiscent of the sculptures of the famous Fontana dei quattro fiumi in the Piazza Navona in Rome, or even the Fontana di Sebeto in Naples, but is more likely based on an ancient source, perhaps on the series of the four river gods made in the Roman era, of which one, representing Dio Nio, rediscovered in 1734, can be found in Naples, on the Largo Corpo. Of that figure a Naples, Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea figure exists in the Museo di San Martino, which was published by Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Tagliolini e la Porcellana di Napoli (1988), cat.no. 59. Another possibility would be affreschi, for example the Roman fresco found in Pompei (Fresco in the Fourth Pompeian Style, depicting the personification of the Sarnus River from a wall in the House of the Vestals at Pompei, 50-79 AD) now in the Louvre Museum, Paris. For further reading on the iconography of river gods see: Claudia Lazzaro River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth-century Italy, published in Renaissance Studies, Vol 25 (February 2011), pp. 70-94.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Doccia armorial beaker with the arms of Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Stoppani, circa 1753The front painted with the arms beneath the cardinal's galero, the reverse with a finely painted flower spray flanked by insects, gilt-edged rims, 8cm high (short hair crack and two small flat chips to rim)Footnotes:Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Stoppani (1695-1774) was born to a noble Milanese family, ordained as a priest in 1734, was Apostolic Nuncio in Tuscany from 1735 to 1739, and subsequently in Venice and the Holy Roman Emperor and the Diet of Frankfurt in 1745. He was appointed Cardinal by Pope Benedict XIV in the consistory of 26 November 1753.Prseumably while serving as Apostolic Nuncio in Tuscany, Stoppani became a friend of the founder of the Doccia factory, Marchese Carlo Ginori. In a letter of 1752, Stoppani thanked Ginori for a gift of some 'very fine' porcelain and reminded him that he has sent a drawing of his family's coat-of-arms, presumably for the planned armorial service. A letter dated 1 December 1753 records the delivery of the service, shortly after Stoppani's appointment as Cardinal: 'On Wednesday morning the news of the promotion having reached here, I give myself the honour of relaying to Your Excellency that having left for Urbino, I took advantage of the opportunity to present my compliments to Cardinal Stoppani and to present him with the case which was graciously consigned to me, he was extremely grateful for the magnificent porcelain service contained therein...' (quoted in J. Kräftner, Baroque Luxury Porcelain (2005), p. 287).The coffee pot from the service is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (accession no. C.51-1931), published in L. Frescobaldi Malenchini/R. Balleri/ O. Ruccelai (eds.), Amici di Doccia Quaderni, VII (2013), cat. no. 88. The milk jug is in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, published by J. Kräftner, op. cit., no. 112.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen outside-decorated group of a cavalier and a lady, mid 19th centuryAfter the 18th-century model by J.J. Kaendler, the lady wearing a flower-decorated crinoline dress with a yellow underskirt seated at a table sewing, the cavalier wearing a purple suit and floral waistcoat with his tricorn resting on the table, a seated pug dog at their feet, the gilt-edged base shaded in earth tones, 17.5cm high, crossed swords mark and dash in blue, incised numbers 551. and 61. (firing crack with associated haircrack to underside of base, her left hand and forearm restored)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A pair of Meissen figural candelabra allegorical of Autumn and Winter, late 19th centuryEach with two figures on a domed base moulded with scrollwork feet and rims, Autumn with a girl seated on a goat holding fruiting vines and a standing boy playing the flute, Winter with a boy seated on a sled holding an axe and a girl standing over a brazier, the scrollwork shafts applied with fruiting vines and leaves, respectively, rising to a sconce mounted with a removable four-arm candelabrum with five sconces and applied with flowers, 43.5cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised model numbers 785 and 786, impressed numerals, both with painter's numeral 36. (some restoration and minor losses) (4)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Dutch Delft pair of milkers, Anthonie Pennis factory of 'de twee scheepjes', circa 1760-70Modelled as a lady and a boy, each seated on a narrow stool, a bucket between their feet, each milking a cow decorated with ornate floral wreaths around their necks and over their backs, the naturalistic base with moulded naturalistic elements and frogs, 16.5cm high, small AP mark in red to the base (one ear on each cow and one horn on each cow with restoration) (2)Footnotes:Cows dressed in garlands of flowers is a custom now associated mostly with the East of Switzerland and Austria but was also a 16th century Dutch custom of thanksgiving coinciding with the nameday of the Saint protecting the Butcher's Guild, Saint Luke (18 October). On this day, Dutch oxes were dressed in floral garlands and paraded before slaughter. Although this custom does not exist anymore, it can be found in many representations of 18th century Dutch Delftware cows. The history of the factory of 'De Twee Scheepjes' factory (the two ships) reaches into the 17th century. In 1750 however, Jan Pennis, owner of De Porceleyne Schotel factory, purchased De Twee Scheepjes factory for his son Anthonis Pennis who started work there that same year after receiving his master's title. In 1764, Anthonis registered his AP factory mark. Anthonis Pennis was an active man; not only was he the head of the Guild of St. Luke several times, he was also the captain of a company gunmen. For further reading see: Aronson, 'The Delft Potters in the Guild of Saint Luke'(https://www.aronson.com/the-delft-potters-guild-st-luke/).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A documentary Naples, Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, circular box and cover, circa 1773-1780The exterior undecorated, the inside cover finely painted by Francesco Rossi, signed F.R. in puce on the inside rim, with a putto seated in a landscape blowing bubbles, a clay pot beside him, 3.5cm high, 6.7cm diam. (2)Footnotes:Literature:A. Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli (1986), no. 551Rossi appears in the manufactory's staff lists between 1745 and 1780 at a salary of 15 ducats, the same as that of Giacomo Milani and Antonio Cioffi (see A. Caròla-Perrotti, op.cit., p. 558).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A pewter-mounted Dippoldiswalde hexagonal stoneware jug, late 17th centuryThe central field with panels depicting grapes and scrollwork embellished in gilding and enamels, alternating with a gilt and enamel floral motif on a Kerbschnitt ground, between bands of Kerbschnitt, the neck with a relief-moulded band of scrolls and foliate motifs heightened in enamels and gilding below striped and dotted bands, the unmarked pewter cover with ball thumbpiece, 20.5cm high (restored)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Saint-Cloud silver-mounted snuff box in the form of a fox, circa 1750Modelled reclining with its tail wrapped around its back, painted with polychrome flower and foliate sprigs, the mounts Paris, probably circa 1748 with a charge and décharge of Antoine Leschaudel 1744-50, 6.3cm high, 6.5cm long, indistinct maker's mark (minor wear)Footnotes:Provenance:Anon. sale, Christie's London, 24 February 1997, lot 205Similar animal-shaped boxes are illustrated in B. Rondot (ed.), Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory ca. 1690-1766 (1999), nos. 193-202.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An Italian maiolica tapering rectangular armorial flask, first half 17th centuryProbably Faenza, each side painted with the Medici arms below a coronet, the base and shoulder with rectangular lugs, 24.5cm high (minor restoration)Footnotes:Provenance:Italian private collection since the 1960s;Thence by descentThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Freiberg pewter-mounted stoneware jug, circa 1660The ovoid form with a Kerbschnitt ground between bands of foliate panels painted in white and black with some traces of gilding alternating with low-relief masks, between formal black and white borders, the lower body with semi-circular Kerbschnitt panels edged in black and white enamel, the handle with stylised floral motifs embellished in black and white enamel, the pewter cover with a band of flowers and a mask thumbpiece, three touchmarks, 20.1cm highThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Meissen group of an amorous couple, circa 1925Modelled by Franz Christophe, each seated on a column-base on a gilt-edged, oval grassy base, both dressed in 18th-century costume, the gentleman wearing a bag over his shoulder and with his tricorn at his feet, the base of his column with incised signature 'Christophe', 18.5cm high; 22cm across base, crossed sword with dot between the tips in underglaze-blue, incised model number A 1181. and impressed numeral 136 (tip of her right thumb restored, small chip to bow of his wig)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen rectangular turquoise-ground tea canister and cover, circa 1745Each side reserved with a gilt-edged panel depicting a Kauffahrtei- or European landscape scene, the shoulders painted with puce floral sprays, the cover similarly decorated and applied with a rose finial, 11cm high, impressed numeral, faint traces of gilt numeral (tiny chips to rose finial) (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen group of The Drunken Silenus, second half 19th centuryModelled by E.A. Leuteritz, seated slumped on a donkey supported on his left by a standing figure, a nymph reclining at the front by a basket of grapes and a putto at the rear pulling the donkey's tail, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork; together with a German porcelain group of Apollo in his chariot, circa 1900, after a Meissen model, 20.5cm and 22cm high, the first with crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue and incised model number 'No:2724', red painter's mark; the second with pseudo-crossed swords mark and asterisk in underglaze-blue (restored) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenSilenus was modelled by Leuteritz in 1849-1853 using old moulds, see S. & T. Bergmann, The Art of Meissen Figures (2010), no. 9.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen figure of a pilgrim, circa 1750Modelled by F.E. Meyer, wearing a black cape applied with shells, a floral yellow waistcoat, green breeches and iron-red sandals, holding a sack on a stick over his shoulder and his hat under his arm, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork and applied with leaves and flowers, 13.7cm high, impressed 9. (restoration to hands and stick with sack)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen Böttger stoneware figure of God the Father, circa 1977, and a Schwarzburger Werkstätten porcelain figure of seated woman, after 1926, after models by Ernst Barlach (1870-1938)The first as a bearded figure with outstretched arms, on a flared plinth and rectangular base, incised 'E Barlach' on one side of the plinth; the second seated with the left knee upraised on an oval base, 53cm and 23cm high, impressed crossed swords mark to rear and underside of base, the underside with impressed 'BOTTGER/ STEINZEUG' stamp, model number 85034, former's number 149 and date code for 1977 to the first; the second with impressed fox mark and manufactory name stamp, impressed model number U 11 (2)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century Meissen'Schwebender Gottvater' [God the Father soaring] was the first model that Ernst Barlach submitted to the Meissen manufactory, though he had previously worked with the Meissen Director, Max Adolf Pfeiffer, when the latter was Director of the Schwarzburger Werkstätten für Porzellankunst. The model was delivered by April 1922 and Pfeiffer intended the work to be the first of a limited edition by leading contemporary artists for a projected 'Society of Friends of Ceramic Art.' Neither Barlach nor his dealer, Paul Cassirer, were in favour, however, and the idea unfortunately foundered (C. Marusch-Crohn, Meissener Porzellan 1918-1933 Die Pfeifferzeit, p.116).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen figure of a pikeman, mid 18th centuryModelled by J.J. Kaendler, wearing a gilt-edged black tricorn, green jacket with red cuffs and collar and a sash over the shoulder, a red waistcoat and white breeches, standing with his left hand on his waist and holding a pike, 11.7cm high (pike restored)Footnotes:Provenance:Property from a New York Private CollectionA similar figure is in the Hans Syz Collection, from a series modelled by Kaendler in 1745 for presentation by the Saxon Court to Karl Peter Ulrich von Holstein-Gottorp (later briefly Czar Peter III of Russia); see H. Syz et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (1979), pp. 456-457.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen figural spice dish in the shape of a boat, circa 1740Modelled with a boatman seated on the stern of a boat and holding the rudder, the boat moulded and painted with black dots and scattered insects and modelled with a lion head, 15.5cm long, 10.2cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to the rear (the front half of the boat restored from several pieces)Footnotes:Another example is illustrated in R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (1966), no.967.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A pewter-mounted German stonware tankard in Creussen style, probably second half 19th centuryDecorated with a central band in low relief of Christ flanked by the twelve Apostles, heightened in enamels and titled above, between interlaced relief-moulded borders in yellow and blue, the foot rim inscribed 'DRINCK MICH AUS UND SCHENK MICH EIN DAS DV ERFRISCHT DAS HERZE DEIN 1696', the unmarked pewter cover with a titled view of the Albrechtsburg in low relief and a ball thumbpiece, 22cm highThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Dippoldiswalde pewter-mounted stonware tankard, circa 1700Of cylindrical form with a band of Kerbschnitt embellished in blue and white enamel, between bands of relief-moulded foliate motifs heightened in enamels and rope-twist and dash borders to the rims, the handle with a band of coloured ornament, the unmarked flat pewter cover with a scroll thumbpiece, inscribed '1588', 15cm high (small chip to edge of handle)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Sèvres vase ('vase de Varennes'), dated 1909Decorated with a graduated blue ground scattered with gilt flowerheads and foliage, a gilt border of flowers and leaves above the shoulder, gilt rim, 48cm high, S/1907 in a triangle stencilled in green, RF/Doré à Sevres/1909 mark stencilled in iron-red, incised marksFootnotes:Provenance:With Follet, Brussels (label to underside)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A pair of ormolu candlesticks mounted with miniature Meissen figures, the porcelain mid-18th centuryModelled as a lady and gentleman, each holding a muff and wearing elegant costumes, mounted on a gilt-metal scrollwork base and flanked by scrollwork supporting the sconce, 14.8cm high (tiny chips to porcelain) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Property from a New York Private CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Meissen part tea and coffee service, mid 18th centuryPainted with chinoiserie scenes depicting groups of figures flanked by plants and flowers, above bands of moulded false gadroons coloured in alternating copper lustre and gilding, the saucers and bowl interior with chinoiserie scenes within gilt scrollwork cartouches edges with purple scrollwork, the rims with gilt bands of scrollwork and trellis panels, the scroll-moulded spouts gilt, comprising:a coffee pot and cover,a milk jug and cover,a sugar bowl and cover,a waste bowl,six teacups and saucers, the coffee pot and cover: 22cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 45. to all, impressed numerals (minor rubbing) (19)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Vienna porcelain table centrepiece, circa 1760Modelled with a large hippocamp on a scroll-edged base raised on pierced rockwork with four smaller hippocampi and applied with leaves and flowers, a triton at the rear embracing the hippocamp with four further juvenile tritons and a nereid at the top holding open the hippocamp's mouth, 34.5cm high, 13 in red (minor restoration)Footnotes:Provenance:The Property of a European Noble FamilyAn unpainted example of this centrepiece lacking the hippocampi on the rockwork is illustrated by E. Sladek, Ceremonies Feasts Costumes (2007), ill. 88.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com