This auction has ended. View lot details
You may also be interested in
Lot 10
A Meissen saucer circa 1730
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,120 inc. premium
Looking for a similar item?
Our European Ceramics specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistA Meissen saucer
circa 1730
Painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a large figure wearing a fur hat and holding a stick with a bell and basket, and another, smaller figure with smoking vessels on a high table to one side, within an elaborate gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and purple and iron-red patterns, embellished with iron-red and purple scrollwork, gilt scrollwork border to rim, three iron-red circles to reverse, 12.1cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 73, incised / inside footrim
Painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a large figure wearing a fur hat and holding a stick with a bell and basket, and another, smaller figure with smoking vessels on a high table to one side, within an elaborate gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and purple and iron-red patterns, embellished with iron-red and purple scrollwork, gilt scrollwork border to rim, three iron-red circles to reverse, 12.1cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 73, incised / inside footrim
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired in 1981
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 34
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
