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Lot 10

A Meissen saucer
circa 1730

25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A 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

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired in 1981

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 34

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

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