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Lot 70*

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

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A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1740

Painted with shadowed insects, ants and a butterfly, including two inside the teabowl, brown-edged rims, the teabowl: 4.7cm high; the saucer: 13.5cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed Former's mark 2 to the saucer (2)

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Provenance:
With The Art Exchange, New York;
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 18 October 2002, lot 440

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 142

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