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A Roman bronze Eros Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.The cherubic winged god wearing a Phrygian cap, his right hand holding a set of panpipes towards his face, a shepherd's crook in his lowered left hand, 5.5cm highFootnotes:Provenance:with Sasson Ancient Art, Jerusalem, 2014. Private collection, Hong Kong, acquired from the above.The Phrygian cap and shepherd's crook are attributes more commonly associated with Attis, the consort of Cybele, suggesting this bronze derives from the eastern Roman empire.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 Greek red-figure owl skyphos South Italy, circa 4th Century B.C.Decorated on each side with an owl with large circle and dot eyes, the heart-shaped face outlined in dots, the wing feathers indicated with vertical lines, flanked by olive sprigs, 7.5cm high, 9.5cm diam. excl. handlesFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, UK, presented to the collector by the Linnean Society, London. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 April 2000, lot 292. Private collection, Geneva, acquired from the above sale. Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above in 2006.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 Attic black-figure Little Master lip-cup Circa mid 6th Century B.C.Decorated with a fine band of black around the lip and middle of the bowl, the lower section of the bowl, stemmed foot and handles black-glazed, the interior with central dot and circle, circumscribed with one thick and numerous slender linear bands, 8.5cm high, 17cm incl. handlesFootnotes:Provenance:Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14-15 December 1981, lot 252. Private collection, Switzerland.Cf. an example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 03.24.32; the present lot is a finer example of this type. The Little Masters specialised in a delicate, miniature style of vase-painting, and were active in Athens in the first half of the 6th Century B.C. The lip-cup was one of their favoured shapes.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 Egyptian light blue glazed composition shabti for General Pa-Khas Late Period, 30th Dynasty, circa 380-343 B.C.The mummiform figure wearing a striated wig and plaited false beard, a seed bag over his left shoulder, holding a pick and hoe, the front with nine horizontal bands of hieroglyphic text naming General Pa-Khas born of Ib...(the remainder unintelligible), with dorsal pillar, 27cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, sold on the Swiss market 1984-1986.with Antiquarium Ltd, New York. Private collection, USA, acquired from the above.For another smaller shabti belonging to this General Pa-Khas, see a shabti sold at Christie's, London, 25 October 2007, lot 4, with the text running in a column down the front of the figure; it is not uncommon to find more than one type of shabti in the same cache.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 Egyptian turquoise glazed composition Bes head amulet Third Intermediate Period, circa 1069-664 B.C.Light blue in colour, moulded in high relief with characteristic furrowed brow, large snub nose and curling beard, with thick lips open to reveal small teeth, his head surmounted by a small cavetto cornice crowned by short plumes, a suspension hole pierced diagonally from the reverse to the flat underside, 3.8cm high, 3.3cm wideFootnotes:Provenance:Mr. R. collection, Toronto.W.A. Meijer collection, Netherlands, acquired from the above in the 1980s.Canadian art market, ca. 2010.Private collection, Hong Kong, acquired from the above.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

Six Roman green glass vessels Circa 4th-5th Century A.D.Comprising an amphoriskos with twin trail handles, the slender ovoid body with vertical ribs, tapering to a rounded base, 15cm high; a twin-handled jar with broad collar rim, the globular body with ten indentations, 8cm high; a trefoil-lipped jug, the applied handle folded at the rim to form a thumb-rest, the body with four pronounced dimples, 10cm high; a trefoil-lipped jug, the compressed spherical body with a fine trail spiralling from the shoulders to the ring base, an applied triple-pinched handle with thumb rest, 9cm high; a double balsamarium, the conjoined tubular phials with undulating looped trail extending down either side, 10.5cm high; a pilgrim flask, Roman-Byzantine, the rounded body with two dimpled indentations, the cylindrical neck with a trailed pie-crust pattern above the shoulders, 10cm high (6)Footnotes:Provenance:Amphoriskos: Property from the Collection of Gerd Lester; Sotheby's, New York, 25 June 1992, lot 390 (part).Jar: Property of Dr Fred Pruslin; Sotheby's, New York, 12 December 1991, lot 351. Trefoil-lipped jug: with Barakat Gallery, Beverly Hills, (A Catalogue of the Collection, vol. 1, 1985, G42).Trefoil-lipped jug: with Ariadne Galleries, New York, 1987.Double balsamarium: Asprey Antiques Ltd., London, 7 May 1997Pilgrim flask: with Antiquarium Ltd, New York, 29 November 1990.All: Private collection, U.S.For a similar twin-handled jar with indentations in the body see the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, acc. no. 72.1.9.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 Roman green glass quadruple balsamarium Circa 4th-5th Century A.D.The four cylindrical phials formed by pinching the sides of a single tube, with fine trail decoration and heavier vertical looped trail applied to the corners, the elaborate basket handle composed of three arched tiers, 21.5cm high Footnotes:Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 14 June 1993, lot 79.Private collection, USA, acquired from the above sale.For another quadruple balsamarium with triple basket handle see V. Arveiller-Dulong & M-D. Nenna, Les Verres Antiques du Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2005, p.484, no. 1324.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 Islamic cobalt blue glass bottles Circa 9th-10th Century A.D.Both of elongated cylindrical form, with rounded base, tapering to a short narrow neck and cut-off rim, 24.8cm and 19.5cm high (2)Footnotes:Provenance:with Barakat Galleries, Beverly Hills (A Catalogue of the Collection, vol. 1, 1985, GF94 and G682). Private collection, USA, acquired from the above.Cf. A closely related example, formerly in the Ray Winfield Smith collection, and now in the Corning Museum of Glass, acc. no. 55.1.12. The function of these uncommon bottles with their distinctive narrow necks and elongated bodies is unknown, although they have a wide distribution, from northern Syria to the Kenyan coast.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 Roman bronze lamp in the form of the head of a satyr Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.Finely modelled in high relief wearing a garland of vine leaves with two central clusters of ivy berries encircling the wavy hair, his face characteristically depicted with gaping mouth and furrowed eyebrows, pointed ears and long wavy beard, set on a droplet shaped base, 9cm longFootnotes:Provenance:with Antiquarium Ltd, New York. Private collection, USA, acquired from the above 22 December 1987.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 Roman terracotta oil lamp with erotic scene Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D.Red-slipped, with a volute nozzle and remnants of a ring handle, the discus framed by concentric rings, moulded with a lovemaking scene on a couch, 12cm longFootnotes:Provenance:with Asprey Antiques Ltd., London. Private collection, USA, acquired from the above 7 May 1997.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 Egyptian turquoise glazed composition amulet of Taweret Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.The half-length figure of the hippopotamus-headed composite goddess characteristically depicted with broad muzzle and teeth bared, pendulous breasts and pregnant stomach, wearing a striated tripartite wig and broad collar, a hatched crocodile tail at the back, a ribbed suspension loop between the shoulders, 6cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Oude Kunst- en Antiekbeurs Delft, prior to 1992.Private collection, Geneva. Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above in 2006.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 Greek pottery horse askos Sicily, circa 5th Century B.C.In the form of a recumbent horse, the head with incised snout and mouth, small pointed ears and ridged mane, a long tail running down the back of the barrel-shaped body, with a funnel in the centre of the back, flanked by small strap handles, a conical spout to one side of the tail, the legs folded underneath, the rear legs arched away from the body, details in painted umber including a harness, rays around the funnel, and indicating the upper parts of the legs, the body decorated on one side with a trireme, with long oars and tall sail, the other side with a small dolphin, a floral motif on the horse's chest, 21.5cm x 13.5cmFootnotes:Provenance:with Galerie Arete, Zurich (Antike Terracotten, 1982, no. 18). Private collection, Geneva, acquired from the above 20 March 1982. Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above in 2006.For two related Sicilian animal askoi of a ram and a cow see A. Kozloff (ed.), Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981, pp.145-146, nos. 123 & 124. Kozloff notes that such vessels are usually discovered in funerary contexts, and that the shape of the spout suggests that such vessels may have been used as baby feeders, which also explains the characterful designs. Horse-shaped examples have been found in the region around Selinus.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 Egyptian turquoise glazed composition shabti for Heneb-Heneb Late Period, 26th Dynasty, circa 600-550 B.C.The mummiform figure with a tripartite wig, holding a pick and hoe with a seed bag over his left shoulder, with ten horizontal bands of hieroglyphic text, inscribed for the Priest of the Cult Statues (?) Heneb-Heneb, born to Wadjet-Hery, with dorsal pillar, 21cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, sold on the Swiss market 1984-1986. with Antiquarium Ltd, New York. Private collection, USA, acquired from the above.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 sauciere and cover, circa 1741-45Each moulded with the Alt Brandenstein pattern to the rims, painted with the 'Gelber Löwe' pattern of a tiger curled around bamboo and flanked by flowers, with further scattered flowers and insects, gilt-edged rims, the spout and side-handle moulded and embellished in gilding, the cover with a branch handle with flower terminals, 14cm high; 21.7cm across including handle, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 24 (minor restoration to applied leaves and flowers, small flat chip to tip of spout) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainThere are several mentions in J.F. Eberlein's work records between 1741-1743 of the service ordered by the Oberküchenmeister Friedrich August von Brandenstein, though the service has yet to be identified and it is not known whether he ordered it for the court or for himself. No service of this pattern is recorded in the surviving inventories of the Saxon court pantries, though a service fitting this description was among the vast quantity of porcelain seized by the King Friedrich II of Prussia in 1745 at the end of the Second Silesian War. See J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, II (2013), pp. 453-455, and nos. 474-481 for further pieces from the service in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection.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 allegorical of Geometry, late 19th centuryAfter the model by M.V. Acier of 1774-1775, depicting three winged putti seated on rockwork with a book and glass, measuring instruments and a globe, on a flat-backed, lobed base moulded with formal and foliate borders, 18.2cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised 'No.13', impressed 163 (one wing restored, haircrack to underside of base)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenConceived as a pair to a group emblematic of Arithmetic, one of four pairs of groups celebrating Catherine the Great as a supporter of the Arts and Sciences.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 green-ground tea canister and cover (bôite à thé), circa 1758Each side reserved with a panel enclosing a loose flower spray edged by a tooled gilt border surrounded by gilt scrollwork, the flat cover with gilt dentil border and gilt starburst motif, 7cm high (tiny flat chip to flange of cover) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Sèvres Porcelain from an International 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 'Cris de Paris' figure of a pastry seller, circa 1755Modelled by Peter Reinicke, wearing a lavender headscarf, pale yellow tunic with white stomacher, white apron and puce skirt with stripes, holding a basket of baked goods in her right hand and sheet of pastries in her left hand, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork and applied with leaves, 13.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base, (edge of pastry sheet in basket chipped)Footnotes:After a drawing by Christophe Huet of 1753, illustrated by M. Eberle, Cris de Paris (2001), no. 40.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 group, second half 19th centuryAfter the 18th century model by M.V. Acier, in the round, depicting a gentleman holding a violin and a lady next to him holding a cup and a scroll, a flower basket at her feet, the reverse with a girl playing the lute on a high rockwork base embraced by a boy lower down on the base, below them a putto playing a tambourine seated on a goat being fed by another putto, a third putto holding a dove to the gentleman's right, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork, 35cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, indistinct incised marks (some restoration)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 Meissen figure of a lady at a spinning wheel, late 19th centuryAfter an 18th century model by J.J. Kaendler, seated in a high-backed, gilt-edged armchair holding a book in her right hand, a spinning-wheel on a gilt-edged table to her side, wearing a purple jacket decorated with green dots, a striped patterned underskirt and a pale yellow overskirt embellished with puce flower motifs, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork, 15.8cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised model number 2685, impressed 62 (restored)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenAnother example is illustrated in S. and T. Bergmann, Meissen Figures - Model Numbers 1 - 3000 (2017), no. 1063.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

Five Meissen Hausmaler two-handled beakers and six saucers, the porcelain early 1720s, the decoration probably circa 1745Each moulded with flower sprigs, probably decorated in the workshop of J.F. Metzsch, Bayreuth, the saucers with a circular purple monochrome hunting scene within gilt line borders, the beakers with two purple landscape scenes depicting animals flanked by gilt trellis panels joined by floral swags, the moulded flowers on the beakers heightened in enamels and gilding, the ear-shaped handles gilt, the rims with gilt trellis panel borders, on the saucers embellished with floral and drapery swags; together with a similar beaker, 19th century, the saucers: 12.6cm diam.; the beakers: 8cm high, incised / inside footrims, the later beaker with crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue and impressed numeral (very minor wear) (12)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainThe coffee pot from the same service was in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), no. 338).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 pastoral group, second half 19th centuryAfter the model by M.V. Acier and J.C. Schönheit, modelled in the round with three pairs of figures on a high rocky base: a seated hurdy-gurdy player and a standing bagpipe player at the top by a removable leafy tree; a couple dancing below them; and a couple seated on the reverse, the gentleman pouring wine for the lady who holds a plate of food, a dog to one side, the base moulded with a gilt-edged formal border of interlaced rings alternating with foliate medallions, 46cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised model number D.96, impressed numeral, painter's numeral 47 (minor restoration and typical minor losses to tree branches)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenModelled by Acier and Schönheit in September and October 1772; the moulds were repaired by Acier in July 1780.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 large double-handled cup, cover and saucer (gobelet à lait couvert et soucoupe), circa 1757-58Of the second size, painted by Vincent Taillandier with cartouches of birds in landscapes within a trellis pattern of apple green-ground ribbons interspersed with flower sprigs, 8.5cm high, 18.7cm diam., interlaced LL monogram, painter's mark for Taillandier, incised na to the base of the cup, incised I to the base of the saucer (cover with some restoration) (3)Footnotes:Provenance:Collection R.R.J.C., F37;Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 13 July 1976, lot 24;With Winifred Williams;Vincennes & Sevres from a New England Collection, Christie's New York, 5 May 1999, lot 39;Sèvres Porcelain from an International 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 large Meissen group of the Triumph of Apollo over Python, late 19th centuryAfter the model by J.J. Kaendler of 1774, depicting Apollo standing triumphant with his bow above the slain python and a nude figure personifying envy, a putto holding a palm and laurel wreath above him, Pallas Athena seated to his right holding an olive branch and an owl to her side, all on a tall rockwork base on a flat-back bracket pedestal moulded with neo-classical borders heightened in gilding and enamels, 38cm high; 25.5cm across base, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (twice), incised model numbers 32. and 'No. 32', impressed numerals, painter's numeral 2., (some restoration to extremities, minor chips)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

Two Meissen models of goats from the Pfeiffer period, circa 1924-34Modelled by Erich Hösel, each with its forelegs on an upside-down Meissen bowl decorated with underglaze-blue floral sprays, 13.5cm high, 11.8cm long, crossed swords marks with dot between the hilts in underglaze-blue, incised model numbers V 107b, impressed numerals (minor restoration and chips to ears) (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 large Sèvres blue-ground teapot and cover (Theière 'calabre'), dated 1791Each side reserved with a tooled gilt-edged panel, finely painted by Pierre Massy with a parrot in a landscape on one side and a still life with fruit and flowers on the other, gilt scrollwork borders to the rims in between circular monochrome panels depicting trees, the spout and handle heightened in gilding, the cover applied with a fruit finial, 14cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter OO, painter's mark for Massy and gilder's mark for Vandé fils, incised marks (tiny chip to tip of spout) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 17 - 18 November 1999, lot 222;Sèvres Porcelain from an International 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 large Meissen beaker and cover, circa 1726-30Each side finely painted with a harbour scene, one with Chinoiserie figures by a quayside, the other with large ships in a harbour, within gilt scrollwork cartouches filled with Boettger lustre and edged with iron-red and purple scrolls, above a border of moulded acanthus heightened in gilding, gilt scrollwork border to the rim, the cover similarly decorated and applied with a gilt knop finial, 14.8cm high, 9.8cm diam. at widest, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt B. (2)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainThis 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 monkey band, late 1970s/early 1980sAfter the models by J.J. Kaendler and P. Reinicke of 1753-1765, comprising twenty-one figures, each on a base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork: the conductor with a separate music stand; four seated singers; a seated organist; a drummer and drum-carrier; a triangle-player; a seated harpist; a bassoon-player; a violinist; a cellist; a bagpipe-player; a hurdy-gurdy player; a drummer; a lute player; a flautist; an oboist; a trumpeter and a horn player, 12cm-18cm high, crossed swords in underglaze-blue, incised model numbers, impressed formers' numbers and date codes, various painters' numbers (22)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 'Cris de Paris' figure of a fish seller, circa 1755Modelled by Peter Reinicke, wearing a white headscarf, yellow bodice and floral skirt with white apron, her hands on her hips and a tray with fish strapped around her waist, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork and applied with leaves, 13.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to rear of base, impressed 13 (minor chips)Footnotes:Provenance:Anon. sale, Christie's Paris, 15 May 2003, lot 474The model is after a drawing by Christophe Huet from 1753 and is illustrated in M. Eberle, Cris de Paris-Meissener Porzellanfiguren des 18.Jahrhunderts (2001), no.39.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 teapot and cover, circa 1730The ovoid body applied on each side with flowering branches, short curved spout and wishbone handle, 11.5cm high (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 Sèvres small green-ground teapot and cover (théière 'calabre'), circa 1760Decorated by Jean-Baptiste Tandart l'aîné with diagonal green-ground ribbons heightened with gilt scrollwork, alternating with bands of floral garlands, the spout also painted with floral garlands, the handle heightened in gilding, the cover similarly decorated and applied with a flower finial, 10.3cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter g(?) and painter's mark ... for Tandart in blue, incised mark (minuscule chip to tip of spout) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Collection Edouard Chappey (paper label to inside of teapot), Galerie Georges Petit, 27-31 May 1907, lot. 1108;The Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection, part I, sold Christie's New York, 22 March 1991;Sèvres Porcelain from an International 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 sugar bowl and cover, circa 1735-40Each side painted with a European landscape scene depicting a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside, and travellers and buildings in a landscape, within a gilt cartouche of scrollwork and trellis panels edged with colourful scrollwork, a sprig of indianische Blumen to the sides, the cover with two vignettes depicting a Winter and a Kauffahrtei scene within a band of gilt scrollwork, a sprig of indianische Blumen within the moulded rim at the top, gilt-edged rims, 12.2cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 13. to both (gilding flaking) (minor flaking to giding) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainThis 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 stand from the Sulkowski Service, circa 1738Possibly modelled by J.F. Eberlein, of rectangular form with indented corners, the sides moulded with basketwork, applied on the front and back with a crowned cartouche painted with the arms of Sulkowski and Stein zu Jettingen, all raised on four gilt-edged scroll feet with palmettes, the surface painted with scattered sprigs of indianische Blumen, 49.5cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (some regilding, minor damage)Footnotes:Provenance:Graf Alexander Joseph von Sulkowski (1695-1762);Paul Schnyder von Wartensee Collection, Lucerne;Anon. sale, Sothebys Zurich, 21 November 1990, lot 85;U.S. Private CollectionThis form may be the second referred to in an entry of J.F. Eberlein's work records for December 1737: 'Zwey neue Tisch Bletter eines oval, das andere viereckigt die ecken verbrochen, von Doone [Ton] gemacht' [Two new table leaves one oval, the other rectangular with broken corners, made from clay] (AA I Ab 09, fol. 270 a-b {Monatsrapporte, 1737}).This form has been considered a stand for a tureen (see R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (1966), no. 488, pl. XVIII, for a tureen and cover on a smaller stand of similar form). Another possibility is that this stand belongs to the '64 Stück Confect-Aufsatzstücken, wozu 160 kleine Figurgen und 48 kleine Blumen Bouquettes' [64 dessert pieces, to which 160 small figures and 48 small flower bouquets] among the additional pieces for the service ordered in July 1737 (quoted by H. Rakebrand, Meissener Tafelgeschirr des 18. Jahrhunderts (1958), pp. 14-15).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 Nymphenburg model of a seated mastiff, circa 1765Modelled by F.A. Bustelli, naturalistically painted in shades of black, wearing a green collar and seated on a flat base, 10.8m high, impressed shield mark to top of base (some restoration to the base and front legs)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainTwo further examples, one white and one polychrome, are illustrated in K. Hantschmann/A. Ziffer, Franz Anton Bustelli (2005), nos. 217 and 218. Another polychrome example formerly from the Kaumheimer Collection was sold at Christie's London, 3 December 2003, lot 69.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 Paris porcelain plate, 19th centuryDecorated with a boy holding scales and a basket of fruit in a landscape, the rim with a gilt border, 23.3cm diam., unidentifiable mark in gilding, incised mark (some rubbing)Footnotes:Provenance:With Gerald Sattin, London (purchased 2 January 1990);Sèvres Porcelain from an International 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 allegorical of 'Air', circa 1750-60Modelled by J.J. Kaendler and F.E. Meyer, with a classical nude seated on a cloud base, her hair flying behind her and a dove perched on her left hand, a peacock standing beside her and a putto with bellows kneeling behind, another putto flying amidst the clouds above, 15.5cm high (small losses)Footnotes:The model is from a series of the Elements, of which 'Fire' is in the Hans Syz Collection, Smithsonian Institution (H. Syz et al., Catalologue of the Hans Syz Collection (1979), no. 289).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 figures of a sleeping woman, late 19th/early 20th centuryAfter the 18th century model by M.V. Acier, asleep on a chair, her arm resting on a tall table beside her, her shoes next to her feet, one wearing a white dress with purple and iron-red foliate sprays, the other wearing a dress painted with indianische Blumen, 19cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, one with one incised cancellation mark, incised model number E.58 to both, impressed numerals (one with restoration to left hand) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenPossibly after 'La philosophie endormie' by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, etching by Jean-Michel Moreau, le jeune.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 later-decorated shell-shaped dish (compotier coquille), the porcelain 18th centuryThe blue ground reserved with gilt scrollwork cartouches enclosing birds in landscapes, 11.5cm wide, spurious interlaced LL monogram with painter's mark T.Footnotes:Provenance:Sèvres Porcelain from an International 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

Fourteen Sèvres plates from the 'Service de Dessert Marly Rouge' for the Emperor Napoleon, circa 1809En-suite with the previous lot, each with a white cavetto, the gilt-edged, red-ground rim with a border of formal gilt foliage within two gilt lines, 23.7cm diam., 'M.Imp.le/ de Sevres/ 1809' stencilled in iron-red, gilt marks and various incised marks (14)Footnotes:Provenance: Delivered to the Emperor Napoleon at the Palais de Fontainebleau on 7th, 8th and 18th October 1809;Listed among the property taken by the Emperor to Elba in April 1814;Given in 1829 to Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte (1805-1870) by his father, the Emperor's youngest brother, Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia between 1807-13, probably on the occasion of the former's wedding to Susan May Williams (1812-81) in 1829; Thence given in 1875 to Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851-1921) and his wife Ellen Channing-Day (1852-1924) on the occasion of their wedding; thence given to Ellen Bonaparte's godson, Robert Wood Williams, Sr. (1890-1984) and Helen Macqueen Gibbs Williams, probably on the occasion of their wedding in 1924;Thence by descent to the present ownerAnother set of 12 plates with butterflies with the same provenance was sold in these rooms, 5 July 2018, lot 223.For a discussion of the dessert service 'fond rouge, papillons et fleurs', commissioned for Compiègne but delivered in October 1809 to Fontainebleau, shortly before the Emperor's arrival there on 26th October for a stay of a little over two weeks, see Camille Le Prince, Napoléon Ier & la Manufacture de Sèvres (2016), p. 72, and p. 278 for the entry of 11 October 1809 in the Magasin de Vente, including the composition of the service, which had a total value of 18,580 francs. Other table and coffee services were delivered to Fontainebleau at the same time, including a service with beau bleu ground that was also originally intended for Compiègne (S. Wittwer, Raffinesse & Eleganz (2007), cat. no. 64). In the imperial hierarchy, Fontainebleau ranked second among the country estates, just after Saint Cloud, and required furnishings commensurate with its importance (Le Prince, p. 72).In the archive transcription these plates with red borders and gilding but without butterflies are listed as '36 assiettes avec marly rouge pour assiettes montées'. There seems to be a group of services with 'asiettes montées' or 'pour monter', or 'assiettes avec bordure seule'. The first mention of these plates with decorated borders for use in mounting appears to be the 'Service à Guirlande de Fleurs sur Fond d'Or', entered in the magazin de vente 26 October 1808.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 Capodimonte figure of a Hussar, circa 1750Modelled by Giuseppe Gricci, wearing a black hat, a jacket with cape and sash, blue trousers and yellow boots, leaning on a shell-shaped basket, a bottle in his right hand, 14.5cm high, impressed fleur-de-lys mark (hat and right hand restored)Footnotes:Another example of this figure with a slightly different basket and no hat is illustrated by Angela Caròla-Perrotti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, Capodimonte e Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea 1743-1806 (1986), p.208, pl. 152a.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 teabowl and saucer, circa 1725-30Painted with chinoiserie scenes of figures engaged at various pursuits heightened with gilt details, within gilt scrollwork cartouches edged with purple and iron-red scrolls and filled with Böttger lustre, wide gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, the teabowl: 4.3cm high, the saucer: 12.8cm diam., crossed swords marks in blue, gilt numeral 86 (minor wear to gilt borders) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainThis 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 Hausmaler teabowl and saucer, circa 1720-30Decorated in the workshop of Ignaz Priessler, Kronstadt (Bohemia), in polychrome enamels with chinoiserie scenes, the saucer depicting two figures seated at a table and a standing figure holding a parasol, flanked by pierced rockwork and trees, the teabowl with a continuous landscape scene with six chinoiserie figures and pagoda-like buildings flanking pierced rockwork, the saucer: 12.6cm diam.; the teabowl: 4.5cm high (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Hugo von Kilényi (1840-1924), Budapest (sold Ernst Museum, Budapest, 26 November 1917, lot 639);Anon. sale, Christies Geneva, 10 November 1986, lot 203;The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainOther recorded teabowls and saucers with similar polychrome decoration: a teabowl and saucer formerly in the Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection (published by R. Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as collected by Otto Blohm (1953), no. 107; a teabowl and saucer formerly in the Margarete Oppenheim Collection (sold by J. Böhler, Munich, 18-22 May 1936, lot 930; a teabowl and saucer formerly in the Jacques Mühsam Collection, Berlin (sold at Glückselig, Vienna, 27-30 April 1925, lot 474; a saucer in the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (possibly the Mühsam example), published by M. Chilton/C. Lehner-Jobst, Fired by Passion vol. III (2009), no. 55.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 allegorical of 'Summer', second half 19th centuryAfter the model by J.F. Eberlein, as a classical maiden wearing a puce cloak and tunic decorated with blue flowers holding a sickle and wheat sheaf and attended by a putto with another sheaf, on a square base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork and four scroll feet, 27cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised model number 688., impressed 132, painter's number 48. (her left forefinger restored, minor chips)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 Sèvres écuelle, cover and stand (Écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'rond'), dated 1781Of the third (écuelle) and second size (stand), decorated by Jean-Charles Sioux l'aîné with flower garlands hanging from blue feathered borders under a gilt foliate band and pale blue ground border with puce flowerheads, the rims gilt, the cover applied with a foliate branch handle, the stand: 21cm diam., the écuelle: 11.5cm high, interlaced LL monograms with date letter DD, painter's marks for Sioux, gilder's marks for Chauvaux, incised 43a over 9 and VL (small flat chip to inside footrim of écuelle) (3)Footnotes:Provenance:The Pompey Collection, sold Christie's New York, 23 May 2002, lot 65;Sèvres Porcelain from an International Private CollectionFor pieces of similar date and decoration by Sioux, see a déjeuner from the collection of J.P. Morgan in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, Eighteenth Century French Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J.P. Morgan Collection, 2000, no. 106).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 large Meissen figures of a lady and gentleman, late 19th centuryAfter the models by J.J. Kaendler of 1762, the lady holding a floral wreath, a posy and a flower basket on her left arm, wearing a pale yellow hat with a posy and floral-patterned costume, a tree-stump at the rear, the gentleman leaning on a branch on a scroll base with his tricorn and a flower basket under his left arm, wearing a pale-blue jacket and gilt waistcoat with floral patterns and puce breeches, a spindle at his feet, the bases moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork, 50cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised model numbers R.65 (the lady) and 2868 (the gentleman), impressed numerals (some 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 Nymphenburg coffee cup and saucer, circa 1775Each painted with a bird perched on a tree in a landscape above a green rocaille cartouche edged with flowers, surrounded by flower sprays, the cup: 6.4cm high, the saucer: 12.8cm diam., impressed shield marks, impressed 5 (minor wear to saucer) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainThis 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 double-handled blue-ground tray (plateau 'losange' à jour à anses), dated 1772Painted by Armand l'ainé with two birds in a landscape surrounded by gilt foliate garlands on a blue ground, the pierced rim and handles with foliate motifs and zig-zag trellis work heightened in gilding, 37cm wide, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter T, painter's mark for Armand and gilder's mark for Boulanger, incised marks IP (two tiny chips to rim)Footnotes:Provenance:Dr. Anella Brown, Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, 23 April 1977, lot 58;Property of a Texas Gentleman, Christie's New York, 25 October 1994, lot 265;With John Whitehead, London;Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 17 - 18 November 1999, lot 215;Sèvres Porcelain from an International 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 very pair of rare Meissen candlesticks from the Sulkowski Service, circa 1735-38Each with a faceted and knopped stem painted with sprigs of Kakiemon flowers, a band of gilt flowers and gilt lines, with a gilt-edged moulded border of acanthus leaves below the basket-moulded nozzle, the domed bases similarly painted with flower sprigs, applied on each side with a gilt-edged cartouche below a crown, painted with the marriage arms, the gilt scroll mantling moulded with green leaves threaded through the scrolls, flanked by gilt-edged moulded bellflowers, 24cm high crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, one with (unidentified) impressed Dreher's mark of four crosses within a circle (one restored through the shaft) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Graf Alexander Joseph von Sulkowski (1695-1762);Thence by descent;The Property of a Lady of Title, sold Sothebys London, 23 May 1967, lot 34 (probably);European Private Collection;U.S. Private CollectionThe delivery specification of the service records '28 Tafel Leuchter' [28 table candlesticks] (quoted by H. Rakebrand, Meissener Tafelgeschirre des 18. Jahrhunderts (1958), p. 14).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 set of Paris, Duc d'Angoulême, ice cups, covers and a stand, late 18th centuryPainted with scattered cornflowers, gilt sprigs and cornflower garlands, comprising: a footed tray and nine cups and covers, the stand: 13.5cm diam., the cups: 9.5cm high, AG monogram mark in iron-red (19)Footnotes:Provenance:With Gerald Sattin, London;Sèvres Porcelain from an International 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 set of five Meissen figures allegorical of The Senses, 1973-83After the models by J.C. Schönheit from 1772, each depicting a seated lady with their respective attributes of the Senses, four seated by a small table and one playing the spinet, on rectangular bases with a curved front and gilt-edged moulded borders, 12.2cm to 14.5cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised model numbers 70660-70664, impressed numerals and date codes, various painters' numbers (5)Footnotes:Provenance:A Private Swiss Collection of 19th century MeissenThe figures were originally modelled by Schönheit in 1772; see S. & T. Bergmann, Meissen Figures - Model Numbers A1 - Z99 (2014), nos. 258-262.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 pair of Meissen figural candlesticks, late 19th centuryModelled by E.A. Leuteritz after the models by J.J. Kaendler, depicting a shepherdess playing the recorder with a recumbent sheep at her feet, and a shepherd playing bagpipes with a recumbent dog at his feet, respectively, each with a leafy tree at the rear surmounted by a foliate drip-tray and sconce, on high scrollwork bases, decorated overall in underglaze-blue and gilding with flesh tones, 35cm high, crossed swords marks and 64. in underglaze-blue, incised model numbers F 155 and F 156, impressed numerals (minor chips) (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 rare Meissen Augustus Rex vase and cover, circa 1730Of ovoid form, superbly painted in the manner of J.E. Stadler with a vignette depicting two large chinoiserie figures enclosed by vividly coloured indianische Blumen and birds in flight and perched on the flowers, the neck with similar flowering branches, the domed cover similarly decorated with an iron-red border of whorls and sunbursts to the rim, 38.4cm high, AR monogram in underglaze-blue, (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 2 March 1993, lot 269;The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainLiterature:U. Pietsch/K. Jakobsen, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1997), no. 177Exhibited:Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 19 January-6 April 1997;Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresdeb, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Albertinum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 7 May-13 July 1997A closely similar vase, possibly the pair to the present lot, is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (accession no. C.48&A-1971).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 Höchst figure of a charlatan, circa 1755Modelled by Laurentius Russinger, wearing a black tricorn hat, a red coat, pink doublet with gilt foliate scrolls and green breeches, the flat base moulded with puce and gilt scrollwork, 12.5cm high, wheel mark in iron-red (small chips)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainA similar model is published in H. Reber, Höchster Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Privatbesitz (1984), p. 53.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 Ludwigsburg gilt-bronze mounted figural scent bottle, circa 1770Modelled by Johann Heinrich Schmidt, as a huntress, wearing a green cap, green-edged white bodice and puce skirt, holding a rifle in her left hand and a bird in the other, the underside with a circle of roses, the stopper attached by a fine chain, 9cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 19 November 1996, lot 171Modelled by Schmidt between 1766 and 1770; see H.D. Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan (1997), p. 558, no. 446.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 the Merchant's Wife, late 19th centuryAfter the 18th century model by J.J. Kaendler, wearing a pink bodice and white skirt with blue flower pattern, seated at a desk with a pen and ink set and an open ledger, another book on her lap, a basket with bottles and various other items at her feet, the base moulded with gilt-edged scrollwork, 15.5cm high, crossed swords mark in blue with one incised cancellation mark, incised model number 2654 (restoration to left arm and some losses to chair)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 Sèvres helmet-shaped milk jug (Pot à lait aiguière), dated 1788Decorated by Denis Levé with a trophy emblematic for love amongst trailing foliate scrollwork interspersed with birds and flowers, between blue-ground bands painted with flower garlands, gilt rims, the handle heightened in gilding, 13.7cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter LL, painter's mark for Levé, incised marksFootnotes:Provenance:Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 18 November 1999, lot 229;Sèvres Porcelain from an International Private CollectionLinda Roth identifies this rare shape of milk jug with the pots à lait forme Eguere in three sizes found in the factory documents and fired in the glaze kiln in 1788. Another example and a surviving plaster model of the same shape was described as pot à lait buire and is illustrated in Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (2000), p. 252, no. 131.A helmet jug with a similar type of decoration and also painted by Levé was sold at Sotheby's Paris, 19 December 2017, lot 235.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 cockerel teapot and cover, circa 1734Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, looking over its shoulder, the spout protruding from its neck, its tail forming the handle of the pot, the plumage painted in shades of brown, black, yellow and iron-red heightened in gilding, gilt foliate motifs to the rim, the cover in the shape of a monkey eating fruit, 11cm high, 16.5cm long, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (some chips to tail and toes) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainThe model is loosely based on a Chinese Yixing stoneware example. Another one of this model with a different finial is illustrated by R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810 (1966), no. 1126.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 Hausmaler part tea service, circa 1740-50Decorated in Augsburg, with finely tooled gilding over an underglaze-blue base of the Fels-und Vogel pattern, comprising: teapot and cover, sugar bowl and cover, two double-handled beakers and saucers, the teapot: 10cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue (small chips to teapot spout tip) (8)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainThis 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 lilac-ground Augustus Rex vase and cover, circa 1730Of ovoid form with a narrow, flared foot and cylindrical neck, each side reserved with a gilt quatrelobe cartouche painted with a chinoiserie scene, one side in the manner of J.G. Höroldt depicting a bending figure preparing tea attended by another figure holding a basket and fan, with birds in flight overhead, the reverse in the manner of J.E. Stadler showing a figure holding a parasol together with a smaller figure by flowering plants and with birds overhead, the rim of the neck with a band of scrollwork, the domed cover similarly decorated, the finial embellished in gilding, 49cm high, AR monogram in underglaze-blue (haircrack to cover) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen PorcelainThis 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 Sèvres plates (Assiette à feuilles-de-choux), dated 1762Each well painted with vignettes of children in landscapes, the moulded feuille de choux rims with moulded blue-feathered panels enclosing flowers, 15.3cm diam., interlaced LL monograms enclosing date letter I, incised CT (small rim chip to one) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Sèvres Porcelain from an International 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 Sèvres bleu-lapis ground orange tub (Caisse carrée), dated 1759Of the second size, painted by Jean-Louis Morin, the blue ground reserved with elaborate gilt foliate and floral scrollwork cartouches with trellis panels, enclosing colourful birds in landscapes, the feet heightened with gilt flowerheads, 14.8cm high, interlaced LL monogram enclosing date letter F, painter's mark M. for Morin and incised mark 8 (minor flaking to gilt edges on feet)Footnotes:Provenance:Anon. sale, Christie's Monaco, 12 June 1990, lot 92;Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 17 - 18 November 1999, lot 260;Sèvres Porcelain from an International 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