24 Nov 2010
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part Three
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The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part Three
Back to auction 17978
A Meissen saucer
circa 1725
Painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a figure seated by a table with objects and a smoking vase, flanked by flowering plants and a short fence on one side, within a shaped gilt quatrefoil cartouche enclosing Böttger lustre and embellished with iron-red scrollwork, gilt scrollwork border to the rim, three iron-red concentric circles on the reverse, 12.6cm diam., gilt numeral 53., incised / inside footrim
Painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a figure seated by a table with objects and a smoking vase, flanked by flowering plants and a short fence on one side, within a shaped gilt quatrefoil cartouche enclosing Böttger lustre and embellished with iron-red scrollwork, gilt scrollwork border to the rim, three iron-red concentric circles on the reverse, 12.6cm diam., gilt numeral 53., incised / inside footrim
Sold for
£2,400
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Acquired in 1981
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 24
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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