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Lot 215

Très rare soucoupe octogonale en porcelaine de Meissen, vers 1735

A very rare Meissen Chinoiserie octagonal saucer, circa 1735

30 – 31 October 2025, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche

€4,500 - €5,500

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Très rare soucoupe octogonale en porcelaine de Meissen, vers 1735

A very rare Meissen Chinoiserie octagonal saucer, circa 1735


Superbly painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a figure holding a fan offering an object to a figure seated by a table, in a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red foliate scrollwork, a gilt border of seeded scales and scrollwork around the rim, gilt-edged rim, the reverse with two iron-red flowering branches, 13.5cm across, caduceus mark in underglaze-blue, crossed swords mark in blue enamel, incised "/" inside footrim,

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Provenance
With E. Pinkus Antiques, New York;
Said and Roswitha Marouf Collection, La Jolla;
Sold at Bonhams London, 15 June 2016, lot 98

Literature
Pietsch, Ulrich, Passion for Meissen, 2010, no. 16

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