Dalva Brothers Antiques, Antique Furniture, New York

French 18th century furniture, clocks, lighting, paintings, porcelain, sculpture and tapestries

Meissen “Eichhornchen” patter circular tureen and cover mounted in early Louis XVI ormolu as a centerpiece. The Porcelain circa 1735, painted on the front and reverse of the tureen(handles removed) and across the cover(rim reduced) in a kakiemon palette of iron-red, blue, turquoise, yellow and black with a “flying fox” above a squirrel nibbling grapes from a vine traversing two bamboo-bound hedges. Mounted with two bacchic satyrs masks and loop handles. The cover mounted with an ormolu bud and leaf knop, the rim with a plain ormolu border. The footrim is mounted in ormolu with a reeded circular surround supported on three satyrs mask and hooved legs above a triangular base.

Exhibited:

The Walters art Gallery, “European Pottery and Porcelain of the XVIII century from Maryland private collections” Baltimore, Maryland June 4 thru October 16^th, 1948.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, anonymous loan, June 24, 1965 to October 2, 1969.