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A Meissen slop bowl, circa 1726-30 image 1
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Lot 7*

A Meissen slop bowl, circa 1726-30

5 December 2012, 13:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen slop bowl, circa 1726-30

Each side decorated with a chinoiserie scene within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and embellished with iron-red and purple scrollwork, flanked by flowering branches of indianische Blumen, a similar cartouche to the inside, gilt strap- and scrollwork border to the inside rim, 8.4cm high; 17.4cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 45., incised / inside footrim

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 39

A similarly decorated waste bowl and teapot are in the Kocher Collection, Bern. The distinctive strong blue colour was developed in 1726 (see Andreina d'Agliano / Elke Jezler-Hübner, Edles Gedeck Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Kocher (2003), cat. no. 8.

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