A MEISSEN QUATREFOIL BOWL painted in puce camaieu with single gallants and ladies before shrubberies after Watteau, one with a dog within arched gilt and puce line panels, the interior and exterior border richly gilt with interlocking scrolling foliage and flowerheads (minute rubbing to gilt rim), blue crossed swords mark, Dreher's .. to footrim, circa 1745

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A MEISSEN QUATREFOIL BOWL painted in puce camaieu with single gallants and ladies before shrubberies after Watteau, one with a dog within arched gilt and puce line panels, the interior and exterior border richly gilt with interlocking scrolling foliage and flowerheads (minute rubbing to gilt rim), blue crossed swords mark, Dreher's .. to footrim, circa 1745
16cm. wide

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The decoration is closely allied to Count Brühl's table-fountain in the Rijksmuseum, Mannheim, see Rainer Rückert, op. cit., both the use of Watteau engravings as source material and the handling of the trees and shrubs are similar

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