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A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1728 image 1
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Lot 17*

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

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A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1728

Painted with chinoiserie scenes depicting figures engaged in various amusing pursuits, within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with purple and iron-red scrollwork, gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, the teabowl with a spray of indianische Blumen to the interior, the teabowl: 4.1cm high; the saucer: 12.1cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 81. to both, incised / inside footrims (2)

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 33

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