This auction has ended. View lot details
You may also be interested in



A rare Meissen red-ground teabowl and saucer circa 1735
Sold for £12,000 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 rare Meissen red-ground teabowl and saucer
Painted with Kauffahrtei and estuary scenes, reserved on each side of the teabowl within a shaped gilt quatrelobe cartouche and on the saucer within a gilt scrollwork cartouche embellished with iron-red and purple foliate strapwork and trellis panels, gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, the teabowl with a purple monochrome estuary scene in the well, the saucer: 11.8cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark for Johann Christoph Schumann, incised / inside footrims (minute chip to saucer) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired in 1991
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 268;
Den Blaauwen 2000, p. 306, no. 221
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
This teabowl and saucer may belong to a service with the same border patterns formerly in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, which was sold by the Russian state in the early 1930s and is now in the Mannheimer collection in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Den Blaauwen, loc. cit.).
Saleroom notices
Please note that the small chip to the back of the saucer as referred to in the catalogue is actually a firing flaw caused during manufacturing. Both cup and saucer are unchipped.
