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A Meissen teabowl and saucer circa 1730 image 1
A Meissen teabowl and saucer circa 1730 image 2
Lot 54

A Meissen teabowl and saucer
circa 1730

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

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A Meissen teabowl and saucer

circa 1730
Painted with Kauffahrtei scenes of merchants and their wares by a quayside, within an elaborate gilt cartouche filled in Böttger lustre, iron-red and purple and embellished with iron-red and purple scrollwork, the cartouche on the saucer surmounted by a purple chinoiserie vignette and hung with a fruit swag at the base, gilt scrollwork borders to rims, a spray of indianische Blumen to the inside of the teabowl, teabowl: 4.3cm high; saucer: 12.1cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 72. to both, incised / inside each footrim, inventory no. G.28222 in blue enamel to both (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired in 1991

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 76

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

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