Ghislaine Howard
Sale Coordinator
Lot 32
An early Meissen saucer, circa 1723-24
7 December 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,550 inc. premium
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Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
An early Meissen saucer, circa 1723-24
Finely painted with an interior scene depicting a lady in bed attended by a gentleman seated by her bed holding her wrist with his left hand and a flask of liquid in the right, an avenue of trees visible in the garden to the left, within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red scrollwork, gilt-edged rim, 12.7cm diam. (restored small flat chip to rim)
Footnotes
This saucer belongs to a small group of early Meissen teabowls and saucers with European subjects, notably with interior scenes, at least some of which depict a narrative across the pieces of a service. Of these, several pieces are recorded from a service with gilt scrollwork borders (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain (2008), no. 70), as well as two other saucers with plain gilt rims similar to the present lot but with slightly differing cartouches (C. Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, II (2018), nos. 294a and b). The scenes appear to be based on various unrelated engraved sources, notably Albrecht Schmidt's designs for snuff boxes (Bodinek, nos. 294-296).
