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Lot 128

A Meissen waste bowl, circa 1735-40

3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£6,000 - £8,000

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A Meissen waste bowl, circa 1735-40

Superbly painted with a continuous battle scene after G.F. Rugendas depicting Turkish and European cavalry in combat with a camp on one side and cannon, flags and drums in the foreground, the interior with a burnished gold ground reserved in the centre with a purple monochrome landscape scene with horsemen within iron-red concentric circles, 16.8cm across; 8.1cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt H., incised V inside footrim (very minor scattered wear to interior)

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Provenance:
Private Collection, Germany (sold in these Rooms, 14 May 2008, lot 51)

The figures are based on three different engravings by Georg Conrad Bodenehr after Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder; see C. Bodeniek, Raffinesse im Akkord, II (2018), nos. 253, 255 and 260, for the prints in the Meissen manufactory archive.

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