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A very rare Meissen octagonal saucer, circa 1722-23 image 1
A very rare Meissen octagonal saucer, circa 1722-23 image 2
Lot 13*

2 May 2013, 13:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £15,000

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A very rare Meissen octagonal saucer, circa 1722-23

Superbly painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a figure holding a fan offering an object to a figrue seated by a table, in a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red foliate scrollwork, a gilt border of seeded scales and scrollwork around the rim, gilt-edged rim, the reverse with two iron-red flowering branches, 13.5cm across, caduceus mark in underglaze-blue, crossed swords mark in blue enamel, incised / inside footrim

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Provenance:
With E. Pinkus Antiques, New York

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 17

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