Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 24
A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723
7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,187.50 inc. premium
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723
The saucer painted with a military scene of figures on horseback within a gilt scrollwork quatrelobe cartouche edged with iron-red and brown scrollwork, the teabowl with a similar cartouche depicting a figure beside a pack horse, a bird and scattered insects to the reverse, the interior with an iron-red scene within two concentric circles, gilt scrollwork borders to the gilt-edged rims, the saucer: 13.2cm diam., traces of lustre marks (minuscule chips to outside edge of teabowl rim and footrim) (2)
Footnotes
Exhibited:
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, June 1873
The scene on the saucer is based on an engraving by Georg Conrad Bodenehr after Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder, published by C. Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord (2018), vol. II, no. 260.
