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A Meissen turquoise-ground dish circa 1740
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,880 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Meissen turquoise-ground dish
circa 1740
Of lobed pentagonal form, painted with a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche embellished with purple foliate strapwork and trellis panels, gilt foliate strapwork border to the rim, 15.5cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt mark S., incised x
Of lobed pentagonal form, painted with a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche embellished with purple foliate strapwork and trellis panels, gilt foliate strapwork border to the rim, 15.5cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt mark S., incised x
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 3 December 1979, lot 158;
Acquired in the above sale
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 259b
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
This type of dish has been referred to in the past as a spoon tray and a teapot stand. In a late 18th-century inventory of the Margravine of Baden's porcelain collection, the shape is called a 'Zuckerschale' (sugar or confectionary dish).
