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A Meissen purple-ground teabowl and saucer, circa 1735-40 image 1
A Meissen purple-ground teabowl and saucer, circa 1735-40 image 2
Lot 60*

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

£3,000 - £5,000

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A Meissen purple-ground teabowl and saucer, circa 1735-40

The teabowl reserved with two gilt and brown-edged shaped cartouches enclosing landscape and Kauffahrtei scenes, another estuary scene on the inside of the cup within two iron-red concentric circles, the saucer with a landscape scene of figures by a river, a large road sign in the foreground showing the Electoral crossed swords of Saxony, all within a brown-edged gilt scrollwork cartouche, gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, the teabowl: 4.5cm high; the saucer: 13cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 54. to both, impressed Former's mark * and incised / to teabowl and 6.to the saucer (2)

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 108

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