A Meissen saucer circa 1726
6*
A Meissen saucer, circa 1725
Painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a seated figure holding a covered vessel aloft, flanked by flowering plants and covered vessels, within a quatrelobe gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and embellished with iron-red and purple scrollwork, gilt scroll- and strapwork border to rim, three iron-red concentric circles to reverse, 12.6cm diam., gilt numeral 100., impressed .. inside footrim
Estimate:
£2,000 - 3,000
€2,300 - 3,500
US$ 3,000 - 4,500

Footnotes

  • Literature:
    Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 30

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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