A rare Meissen blue-ground waste bowl, circa 1735
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A rare Meissen blue-ground waste bowl, circa 1735
Reserved on each side with a shaped quatrelobe panel painted in Kakiemon style depicting, on one side, a standing phoenix facing a flowering bush, the reverse with flowers, brown-edged rim, 8.2cm high; 16.3cm diam, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark for J.G. Kühnel
Estimate:
£12,000 - 18,000
€14,000 - 21,000
US$ 18,000 - 27,000

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Anon. sale, Christie's London, 3 July 1978, lot 141;
    The Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg, acquired in 1998, sold in these Rooms, 25 November 2009, lot 110

    Literature:
    D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan: Sammlung Hoffmeister (1999), vol. II, no. 267

    Exhibited:
    Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Sammlung Hoffmeister, 1999-2009

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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