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See Mary Campbell Gristina, The Wark Collection, Jacksonville, FL, 1984, fig. 218 for an illustration of a similarly painted bouillon bowl cover and stand
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CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, IMPRESSED WORKMAN'S MARK FOR SCHIEFFER
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A MEISSEN KAKIEMON SUGAR-BOX AND COVER
Circa 1735, blue crossed swords mark, impressed workman's mark for Schieffer
Of quatrefoil form, the moulded cover surmounted by a crown, painted in the Gelber Löwe pattern with a yellow tiger entwined around a bamboo shoot, with flowering prunus issuing from a root to the right; together with a Meissen stand, circa 1735, blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummer 6., painted in the manner of J.G. Heintz with merchants on quayside within quatrefoil gilt, iron-red and puce Laub-und-Bandelwerk cartouches, about a central well enriched as brocade painted with scattered chrysanthemum and half-peonies; and a Meissen (Marcolini) Marseille-moulded soup-tureen stand painted with birds and insects
5in. (12.6cm.) wide, the first (3)
Circa 1735, blue crossed swords mark, impressed workman's mark for Schieffer
Of quatrefoil form, the moulded cover surmounted by a crown, painted in the Gelber Löwe pattern with a yellow tiger entwined around a bamboo shoot, with flowering prunus issuing from a root to the right; together with a Meissen stand, circa 1735, blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummer 6., painted in the manner of J.G. Heintz with merchants on quayside within quatrefoil gilt, iron-red and puce Laub-und-Bandelwerk cartouches, about a central well enriched as brocade painted with scattered chrysanthemum and half-peonies; and a Meissen (Marcolini) Marseille-moulded soup-tureen stand painted with birds and insects
5in. (12.6cm.) wide, the first (3)