Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 78
A very rare Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1735-40
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,250 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A very rare Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1735-40
Painted after a Chinese original in iron-red and gilding, the saucer with flowers within concentric circles radiating further flowers and grass and a trellis band around the rim, the teabowl similarly decorated, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised / and impressed 2 and indistinct Dreher's mark inside footrim of saucer, impressed Dreher's mark for Gottfried Seydel to teabowl (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK
A similar teabowl and saucer decorated with this rare pattern is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (see M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), no. 85).
