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A very rare Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723 image 1
A very rare Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723 image 2
A very rare Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723 image 3
A very rare Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723 image 4
A very rare Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723 image 5
Lot 20*

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

£15,000 - £20,000

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A very rare Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723

The saucer decorated with an elaborate scene of a gentleman writing a letter by candlelight from his campaign-tent, the teabowl depicting a lady receiving a letter, each scene in a gilt and iron-red scrollwork cartouche, the inside of the teabowl with a iron-red view of a large building by a quay and a Venetian boat within concentric circles, the reverse of the teabowl with a branch of indianische Blumen, gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, the teabowl: 5cm high; the saucer: 12.6cm diam., incised / inside footrim of saucer (saucer expertly restored) (2)

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 10

A teabowl and saucer decorated with the same scenes but differing in the cartouches is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain (2008), no. 70a). Part of a service decorated with scenes illustrating the folly of love and marriage, the print sources for both the scenes on the present lot are in the Meissen Archives (published by Cassidy-Geiger, op. cit., figs. 70.1 and 70.3).

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