A PAIR OF MEISSEN TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS

CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, GILDER'S 84. TO EACH PIECE, DREHER'S V MARKS TO TEABOWLS

Details

A PAIR OF MEISSEN TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS
CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, GILDER'S 84. TO EACH PIECE, DREHER'S V MARKS TO TEABOWLS
The teabowls painted on each side with merchants on quaysides within shaped quatrefoil cartouches with Böttger-lustre, purple and iron-red panels with scroll ornament enclosed by gilt scrolls issuing further purple and iron-red scrollwork, the interiors with a spray of indianische Blumen, the saucers decorated with an estuary landscape and a watermill within similar cartouches below gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk borders (very slight wear to gilding)

Provenance

With Winifred Williams, London, from whom they was acquired on 5 September 1980.

Brought to you by

Domonic Simpson

Check the condition report or get in touch for additional information about this

dsimpson@christies.com +44 (0)20 7752 3268

If you wish to view the condition report of this lot, please sign in to your account.

View condition report

Lot Essay

The watermill scene with the sun rising beyond is also depicted with slight variations on a teapot and cover in the Wark Collection, see Ulrich Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, The Wark Collection from the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, London, 2011, p. 133, no. 104. A teabowl and saucer probably from the same service was sold in these Rooms on 21 February 2005, lot 39.

More from The John Shearer Collection of Important Meissen, Vincennes and Sevres

View All