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A Meissen teabowl and saucer circa 1730-35 image 1
A Meissen teabowl and saucer circa 1730-35 image 2
Lot 116

A Meissen teabowl and saucer
circa 1730-35

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

£4,000 - £6,000

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A Meissen teabowl and saucer

circa 1730-35
Decorated in Imari style with alternating panels of a flower head reserved on a lustre ground with gilt trellis pattern, and two panels of prunus trees and flowers, each with a red-ground band reserved with floral scrollwork, the reverse of the saucer with three red chrysanthemums, the saucer: 12.1cm diam, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark of an asterisk (unidentified) and incised / to both (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired in 1988

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 291

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

A similar teabowl and saucer was in the collection of Geheimrat W., Dresden, sold by Rudolph Lepke's, Berlin, 24-26 February 1937, lot 487.

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