Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 35
A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723-24
7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723-24
Each painted with a chinoiserie scene within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red scrollwork, the saucer depicting two figures flanking a pot cooking over a fire on a pedestal, the teabowl with a figure holding two birds on lines with two other figures looking on, the inside with an iron-red view of a Chinese garden with fisherman within concentric circles, gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, incised / inside footrim of teabowl (narrow flat chip to outside edge of saucer rim, gilt border on teabowl worn) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
With Heinz Reichert, Munich;
Acquired from the above
