A RARE BLUE AND WHITE EGGSHELL-PORCELAIN SAUCER

Estimated Value:

400 € - 600 €

Result:

647 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, Qianlong period
D. 10 cm
Neptune, the Roman god of the sea and its inhabitants, is depicted. The scene could illustrate an episode Virgil in the Aeneid, Book I, lines 124-143, in which Neptune calms the waves with his trident Neptune calms the waves with his trident after the chief goddess Juno intervenes in the Trojan War and unleashes a storm to unleashed a storm to fight the retreating Trojan army. The drawing from which from which this motif is derived is the left half of a composition from a copy book by the Dutch artist Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651), which is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Le Corbeiller, 1974, no. 28). The drawing was later engraved by Bloemaert's son Frederick (ca. 1610-1669).
Otmar Kurrus Collection (1929-2012), presumably acquired by Heinz Reichert before 1980
Other pieces with the same decoration include a pattipan in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (Jorg, 1982, no. 50), and a plate in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Le Corbeiller, 1974, no. 28); a saucer from the Mottahedeh Collection comes from a similar service with additional floral sprays (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I, no. 336) - Tiny filled glaze chip to rim

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