Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 25*
A Meissen sugar bowl and cover, circa 1735-40
6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,295 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Meissen sugar bowl and cover, circa 1735-40
Each side painted with a European landscape scene depicting a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside, and travellers and buildings in a landscape, within a gilt cartouche of scrollwork and trellis panels edged with colourful scrollwork, a sprig of indianische Blumen to the sides, the cover with two vignettes depicting a Winter and a Kauffahrtei scene within a band of gilt scrollwork, a sprig of indianische Blumen within the moulded rim at the top, gilt-edged rims, 12.2cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 13. to both (gilding flaking) (minor flaking to giding) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen Porcelain
