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A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723 image 1
A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723 image 2
A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723 image 3
A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723 image 4
Lot 4*

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

£20,000 - £30,000

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A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723

Each painted with an unusual early chinoiserie scene depicting, on the saucer, two figures with a haul of fish, the teabowl depicting figures at a table with a bowl of fruit, within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with foliate scrollwork in shades of iron-red, the teabowl with branches and indianische Blumen flanked by a bird and insects on the reverse, and an iron-red landscape vignette in Chinese style within concentric circles in the centre, gilt scroll- and strapwork borders to the rims, the teabowl: 4.6cm high; the saucer: 12.9cm diam. incised / inside each footrim (2)

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 12

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