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 rare small Meissen teabowl and saucer
circa 1725-30
Finely painted with European landscape scenes depicting figures in a hilly landscape and by a river or harbour, each within a gilt quatrelobe scrollwork cartouche embellished with iron-red and purple foliate scrollwork, gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, the reverse of the saucer with three sprigs of indianische Blumen, the inside of the teabowl with a larger sprig, the saucer: 10.7cm diam.; the teabowl: 3.6cm high, crossed swords marks in blue enamel, gilt V. to both, impressed .. inside both footrims (2)
Finely painted with European landscape scenes depicting figures in a hilly landscape and by a river or harbour, each within a gilt quatrelobe scrollwork cartouche embellished with iron-red and purple foliate scrollwork, gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, the reverse of the saucer with three sprigs of indianische Blumen, the inside of the teabowl with a larger sprig, the saucer: 10.7cm diam.; the teabowl: 3.6cm high, crossed swords marks in blue enamel, gilt V. to both, impressed .. inside both footrims (2)
Sold for
£4,200
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 16 November 1992, lot 307;
Acquired in the above sale
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 71
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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