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A Meissen saucer circa 1725
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,400 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Meissen saucer
circa 1725
Painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a man seated by a table holding a zither on his lap, within a quatrelobe gilt scrollwork cartouche with Böttger lustre and iron-red scrollwork, gilt scrollwork border, three iron-red circles to reverse, 12.4cm diam., incised x inside footrim,
Painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a man seated by a table holding a zither on his lap, within a quatrelobe gilt scrollwork cartouche with Böttger lustre and iron-red scrollwork, gilt scrollwork border, three iron-red circles to reverse, 12.4cm diam., incised x inside footrim,
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired in 1984
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 16
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
The seated figure with the zither appears in the Schulz Codex (pl. 111).
