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A Meissen quatrelobe saucer circa 1740 image 1
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Lot 61

A Meissen quatrelobe saucer
circa 1740

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

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A Meissen quatrelobe saucer

circa 1740
Painted with a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside within a gilt scrollwork cartouche embellished in iron-red and purple, the gilt-edged rim with a flowerhead and scrollwork at the moulded corners, the reverse completely moulded with a basketwork ground, reserved with two moulded quatrelobe floral panels edged in gilding and brown, 13.3cm wide, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numerals 27. inside footrim

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired in 1981

Literature:
Newman 1977, I, p. 62, ill. 58;
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 94

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

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