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Lot 115

A rare Meissen underglaze-blue-ground teabowl and saucer, circa 1735

14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A rare Meissen underglaze-blue-ground teabowl and saucer, circa 1735

The teabowl painted with a scene of huntsmen with their hounds in a landscape with a distant castle, within an elaborate quatrelobe gilt trellis and scrollwork cartouche edged with purple and iron-red scrollwork, the teabowl reserved with two scenes within similar gilt cartouches, fine gilt scrollwork border to the rims, the teabowl with a small circular landscape vignette within a similar gilt border to the inside, the reverse of the saucer with gilt scrollwork and line borders on the underglaze-blue ground, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed (unidentified) Dreher's marks of a star and + (small flat restored chip to edge of teabowl) (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Brigitte Britzke Collection, Bad Pyrmont

Literature:
Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Bad Pyrmonter Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue (2002), p. 48;
La Porcelana de Meissen en la Colección Britzke/Das Meissner Porzellan der Britzke-Sammlung, exhibition catalogue (2009), p. 96

Exhibited:
Museum im Schloss, Bad Pyrmont, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Bad Pyrmonter Privatbesitz, 28 November 2002 to 26 January 2003;
Fundación Caja Segovia, La Porcelana de Meissen en la Colección Britzke 1709-1765, 16 July to 18 November 2009

Another teabowl and saucer from the same service is in the Wark Collection (U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain: The Wark Collection (2011), no. 410).

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