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25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,040 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA rare Meissen café-au-lait-ground teabowl and saucer
circa 1755-60
Each painted in purple monochrome with a study of a pigeon perched on a branch, gilt-edged rims, the saucer: 13cm diam., the teabowl: 4.6cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue (2)
Each painted in purple monochrome with a study of a pigeon perched on a branch, gilt-edged rims, the saucer: 13cm diam., the teabowl: 4.6cm high, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Dr. Edward G. Shiffman Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 19/20 October 1994, lot 279;
Acquired in the above sale
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 279
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
A similar example painted with a vignette of deer is in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (published by Jedding 1979, ill. 172).
