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Lot 111

A very rare Meissen café-au-lait-ground waste bowl
circa 1725-30

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

£15,000 - £20,000

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A very rare Meissen café-au-lait-ground waste bowl

circa 1725-30
The exterior painted in Böttger lustre, enamels and gilding with indianische Blumen issuing from stylised rockwork and a butterfly, the interior painted in underglaze-blue in Chinese style with a bird below stylised bunches of grapes, embellished in polychrome enamels with a band of stylised foliage and flowers, the rim with an underglaze-blue scrollwork border, 8.8cm high, 15.9cm diam.,

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 7 October 1986, lot 263;
Acquired in 1991

Literature:
Barsewisch 1988, p. 70;
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 289

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

Two teabowls and saucers and a hot water jug from the same service were offered in the Sotheby's sale in 1986, lots 264-266. The depiction of the phoenix beneath stylised hanging grapes is derived from a Chinese pattern (Barsewisch, loc. cit.).

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