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Lot 38

An early Meissen octagonal sugar bowl and cover and a teabowl, circa 1718

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18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£12,000 - £18,000

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An early Meissen octagonal sugar bowl and cover and a teabowl, circa 1718

Each decorated, probably in the Funcke workshop, Dresden, in gilding, lustre, red, green, blue and purple, with landscape vignettes with flowers and trees and, on the sugar bowl and on the teabowl a figure in a feather headdress behind a desk, and scattered insects, the teabowl with a gilt band to the inside rim, the sugar bowl: 10.9cm across (scattered wear, tiny chips to footrim of sugar bowl) (3)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Franz and Margarethe Oppenheimer Collection, Berlin (the sugar bowl and cover)

Literature:
L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Franz und Margarete Oppenheimer (1927), no. 37 (the sugar bowl and cover);
U. Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung (1994), nos. 29-30

Exhibited:
Lübeck, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck - St. Annen-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung', 14 November-31 January 1994;
Aachen, Museen der Stadt Aachen - Couven Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung', 26 February-20 April 1994

Saleroom notices

Please note that the sugar bowl and cover is being sold with the agreement of the Estate of Franz and Margarethe Oppenheimer

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